I believe I see down the aisle someone who dreams, by the black tights and leg warmers, of colossal success,…
The Gift of Quick Disclosure
She asked what it was before she unwrapped it. Do you ever wonder why people ask that about gifts?It’s as…
The Power of Prayer
She’d noticed that he spent more and more time reading the obituaries. Not that more people were dying, although Covid had…
Do You Remember? (An Old Car)
Listening to Neil YoungI saw your face in the fire.It took me back to Madisonand winter walks in the night.Remember…
The Rite of Spring
Spring came mid-March this year, the first day fallingon the same day I’d have headed for my annual Madison writing…
The Weight
The old woman sits in a beach chair, ten feet away from the fruit standShe wears an orange and yellow floral…
A Medical Miracle
For a long time now, when I’d be eating my cornflakes at the breakfast table, I’d keep thinking you were…
To Dream the Impossible Dream
Ever wonder if it’s spring’s choice to grow green grass and all those leaves and flowers?Or is spring coerced, preferring…
Odds Are
It’s best to be born mid-century.I was born in 1954, just a babe in the nuclear age.If you come in…
The Fabled Cliché
Never say a good or a bad egg.However, if there is an egg involveddo not ever assume it is an…
To See What He Had Seen — Part One
The phone call brought Lieutenant David Chan back from the dead. At 3:00 in the morning, it sounded, as he gradually…
Will
Will, more than ample to move your miraculous pen forward, versing out divine lines like lightning striking, always looking ahead…
So-So Funny
Students writing their PhD dissertations, that gobstruck time, wandering like zombies, as though they’ve been whacked on the head with…
Enlightenment
CAST Old McGann (MCGANN): A smart old cockroach who has learned all the survival techniques passed down over the last…
E komo/kipa mai?
It’s fuckin fucked up ovah here Everybody coming not jes for play tourist But fo fuckin live, permanent kine, like…
Photo Album
RandyIwalani LiaMickey Me MinnieLeina‘ala Robert RolandAlisha MeishaPeleMe Karen MRod RhondaEllen BettyPaul Karen LChris JonAudrey Me Kaori TinaMerle Snoopy JunkoAllison M…
On the Way
We’d become friends back in elementary school,she and I waiting for our dads to pick us up,we’d sit on the…
Season Signification
Summer, spring, and winter each have one name only, but fall is also autumn, autumn fall, and then somewhere hidden…
On Writing and Reading
I’ve been worrying about something with increasing distress. Yesterday, after I wrote a poem about walking to lose Covid weight…
Covid Calories
I walked four so-so hard miles today, the heat a little more than I could handle easily. I’m finally working…
Lanning Lee 