Side Effects

He’d never been big on lines, but this one he didn’t mind. It snaked back and forth between the stanchions…

The Heart You’re Looking For

We come back day after daySearching for someone to holdWhen others walk away in loveWill we be here passing our…

Reflecting on you and the lake ice, I watched how it broke upin wintertime, huge blocks working against each otheras…

We’re in a woeful state, down to the last generation: Z.I fear it might be they’re an omega of generations…

Two months ago, a pair of Hawaiian Electric workerscame to my house to install a state-of-the-art meterwith all the bells…

This used to be a poem, but now it’s not. I tried to make it pretty, but it didn’t turn…

I’m happy to say that the 2nd episode of my new Lieutenant David Chan Hawaiʻi-based crime story is now available…

Each new door is an opening on another dawn. Yawn. I sing, “It seems to me I’ve heard that song…

So I blew the first one, made a bad decision.Not a rookie mistake; newbies don’t choke so hard.We were getting…

My sister and I are headed for the Royal Observatory, and we’ve decided to take a ride on the Thames…

I see it everywhere nowadays, some people becoming whom they were born to be, but so many others leaving the…

I’m not sure where all he learned how to do it, but my father was a master cook. In fact…

I don’t see them displayed in tiny cages at restaurants and stores anymore, the way I remember them, confined and…

My mom used to call it “beautiful rubbish,” the red-orange flowers from our African Tulip trees, littering the lawn in…

No need to save anything on a board anymore, black or white, ephemeral chalk or marker. I’ve seen it in…

I stared at the block of numbers on the board. I recognized all of them; I could count. I did…

I sit beside her watching whileshe pushes puréed peas and meatloaf around the green plastic tray,stirring in pudding and some…

I’m happy to say that the first episode of my second Hawaiʻi-based Lieutenant David Chan crime story is now available…

So we begin with sunny skies, a cartoon-like rainbow,scattered puffy clouds, the cotton ball kind,with all the flora and fauna…

You would think so, right, that during the downtime one of us might have done it, but we never have.…