A Haunting

Always pictured as a dark forest in ever after land, a hollow space opening up to a cavernous clearing, echoing…

He Who Hesitates

My first winter ever, my friends, Kevin and Cathy, asked if I’d like to take a cross country skiing class…

You don’t need any money to explore space.In fact, according to a story I read,a cow jumped over the moon,…

What I remember of him was he never seemed to take things too seriously, the spin of him, how he…

The pink plumeria tree still stands there. I can see it from my patio. More than twice its height at…

I’m hunting once more, roaming the mysterious interior,farther and farther into the forest of memory, the thicket of heart,traipsing around…

At this point I believe we should let what seems, just be, everything unquestioned and accepting anything completely. Let’s move…

My specialty was the backstroke,that perhaps because I associated it least with drowning,my head above water the entire time.I would…

I’m leaning over this pot of stewing vegetables, trying to stay healthy, I’ve thrown everything into the mix I can…

Whatever it was, however it happened, every leap turned out a big waste of time deal, in those days when…

I promised back then that if one day our situation worsened to the pointwhere people became belligerent and screamed at…

I stood by until after the crew had filled in the hole, a fresh mound of earth rounded over them.…

You may have heard or read this morning’s news reportabout a man in China, kidnapped 24 years agoat the age…

I’m happy to say that the first episode of my Hawaii-based crime series Follie: The Disappearances of Honolulu is now…

This time I drop down on my kneeTo ask if you’ll please marry meYou keep staring over my head Seem…

I’d like to finish round and glossy with some good I’ve done.Is any excuse good enough in the end for…

The well of regret runs deep, clear, cold, hot, then high. I’m a rock tossed into this endless pit, traveling…

“Look,” my wife says, “they don’t go all the way under.” I see but am not relieved. “They lock you…

I’d love to write a poem affirming truth, and love, and constancy, extolling the happily ever after we all seek…

Now, you say, that, that was true knowledge, the kind unkind if the truth hurts you, a loved one, everyone,…