She Was There

I came home in time to catch the tail end of the showThe part where he found her finallyBecause even…

My Stars

I know every star you will see tonightAll of them being born in times after meSoaring only by my design…

Where the world of aloha I’d knownFor most of my life fell awayPulled out from under me, the nasty trick…

On the night I died I dreamt those twilight dreamsThe way you fever dream when you’re half awakeI saw my…

On the morning of the righteous and the savedThose born once more entitled by being born beforeOnly this time knowing…

I took driver’s ed. the summer before 10th grade. I ended up in the class at Lualuna Academy. Pretty ritzy, and more…

Magical, the way our lives danced like a fairytale spinningCharmed amalgam of fantasy, dream, and highest heartsMy good fortune our…

In the dream that woke me up todayI’m walking somewhere in the vicinity of disasterMy old friend from the black…

There used to be only a just bearable fewNow there are an unbearable few hundredWitnessed in the dreaded half dark…

I glance behind sensing that I’ll seeIt’s only myself standing behind me I wonder why I should trust youNot knowing…

The male is quiet, very quiet, a stealth travelerHe meanders with his wife and babies, searchingFor food, it must be,…

I will remember little to finally nothing of this poem in timeWriting is the act of pushing words like these…

I caught their act, three with the back and forth banterEach taking whip-smart improv turnsSometimes a jokester-provoker, then the straight…

I read that if you learn something each dayYour brain will stay flexible, or so some sayHold off memory loss…

It should be calm here and soothing as the waves break tonightBut there’s a tension, not romantic, in their rigid…

I write to keep you safe, captured in these wordsI keep you leaving traces and love’s truthsYou live on in…

I wake up singing from time to timeThe omen’s good or maybe notDepending on the song, of courseThe day is…

When I’m deep in practiceI’ll go an hour or twoOnly pausing perhapsTo add a new fingering or chordAnd at the…

Grad school was a bad time to discoverI was burned out on reading and writingHad only a desire for playing…

I’ve always found love works this wayBefore it strikes the highest peakBlows out and sinks my last desireIt hints at heat…