What’s Ahead

There was a choice in the road up ahead, should I go right, or should I go left? Night had…

Ireland Aloha

It was the moment I have wondered about on occasion, that moment when your death has reached the time it…

Jim tells me he admires the thick patch of aloe vera flowing down through my rock garden to the patio,…

I can’t remember when I stopped dreaming about flying. This recurred often, once a month or more. I would be…

I see them pop up.It’s not really so unusual here.I imagine the dialogue, There, you say, no there.Yes, that’s it. …

Hanging up, I thought then, at that instant,because I was absolutely sure, 19-year old certain,the world would be shot full…

The white smoke winding cloth about her face, pale cerement, raised off-handed, another Pall Mall cigarette lit, red pack, another…

I teach composition at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.I choose to spend as little time in my office as…

It begins like the sound of unlashing whipsunlicking a soulful retreata music akin to tap dancing on sandthis shore that…

Winding and windingup to wound and bound tightas the tasks to grab all day’s promisescramp tension strapped up in rapt…

It’s hard,the forever of never.I’d love to stay completely absorbed in the present,but I think of you now and then,…

Quiet practice I considered a courtesy.The gesture of a considerate neighbor. The walls in this apartment complex are thin.Sometimes I…

You appear to glide secret keeper of the third world swim beneath leaves scattered about the water’s surface second world…

The thought is not to dwell in the past, or in the future,but to learn to live every moment in…

I can’t see you. Not like before, when I knew for sure, you were right behind me, always there. I…

Did we miss each other?If my watch could talk, hah!, it would saywhat? 12:05, 06. If I had a watch…

Spring was watching for weeds to grow in the cracked concrete sidewalks,the dazzling pop of fresh green leaves all appearing…

I don’t know who was more against it. We always held each other in vice grips. I waited for the…

She sleeps deeply, beautiful as smooth carved marble, her moonlit face shows no wrinkles, no scars that you might see…

I would say or do anything to get out of this situation. Hey, I see clothes fluttering on the line…