The House of Missing Keys, Part 7

From the outside, Tia’s Place on Kapahulu appeared to be another simple and unassuming restaurant and bar along Kapahulu Avenue.…

Maybe You Can’t Fix What I Have

Broken when the US mail chokes how my letters take so much time is it there yet read it immediately…

David Chan sat at his desk trying hard to read and not think about the keys. So if this athletic…

In the beginning there was inertia,and inertia led, as you might expect,to nothing, so what had beensomethingness became nothingness: Take-out…

We slouch around the conference table like sagging pillars of Stonehenge, all of us engrossed as vegans in the prospect…

My father sold insurance, and many of his clients lived in the roughest parts of town.He kept under the driver’s…

That Sony radio’s cheap black leather strapjust barely tied the music to my wrist.So poorly made I feared it just…

You sent me the self-portrait in a card once, maybe 1980. You are lying on your stomach, propped up on…

We sit sipping coffee. Awkward. Growing cold. My son and daughter, I say, in their 30s, have given me three grandchildren. I…

You didn’t finish the yard work, only half the bedroom’s painted.Dishes lie in the sink, and you hear the bathroom…

A ballroom exists, a heavenly one with a perfect floor, wide as the universe is wide,where the likes of Ginger Rogers…

Happy Earth Day to you, Earth. Our apologies for everything we’ve done to you. We wish we could go back…

Contemplate the snail, any kind of snail.More than 40,000 snail species slowly roam the earth,all peacefully paced, wending their way…

I jolt awake in the dark.Well, it would be dark except my computer,as have I, has come out of sleep…

We meet our elderly guide in the late afternoon,the graying skies adding to the somber atmosphereoverlaying the double-named London/Derry landscape.…

Sometimes my maternal grandmother visits me,I’ll come awake gradually, know she’s sitting there,silent guardian at the foot of my bed,…

That night I saw you firecracker starburst red,ablaze in a beautifully carved body,an exquisite silhouette scribed against the dark,your hand…

On the square, silver Sony radiowith the cheap black leatherette wrist strapI always feared would snap,our soundtrack falling lost into…