Was It Only a Moment?

Losing pages dog-eared as my life like chapter timesRead my path like a book left fading on a pale benchWhen … More

The Friendly Stranger in the 1974 Black Mercury Marquis

When he stepped out of his carI stood still in Mānoa Shopping CenterI thought he was Tom SelleckBut on second … More

A Searching of the Heart

I feel like a man whose memory functions glacier slow nowMy mind takes eons to piece together some semblance of … More

Autumn Colors

Leaves turn their truest colors in the fallNo longer overwhelmed by chlorophyllThose cloudier months promoting natural huesThe greens all giving … More

A Temporary Parting

I recognize the boy climbing up the bank on the other side.Turning, he calls to me, over the rush of … More

All Our Summers Find One Winter’s End

The only photo I had was of you at that one picnic,blue, long-sleeved shirt, a turtle neck, and white slacks.Our … More

Conduct

We’d sit at stoplights and classical music would playon the public radio station to which she still donated.Again she’d begin … More

A Walk into My Past

The walk down into Waipi‘o Valley on the Big Island is easy,but the hike up isn’t, for the casual stroller … More

The Ancient Singer

Someone’s stumbling on the prayerEveryone tripping on the wayThey’d sew me a new coatWhere the treadle machine’s storedHoping we don’t … More

So Much up in the Air

Nothing much gets the old adrenaline going now, but even if you’re tired, you know, you have to force yourself … More

Remember To Buy . . . What?

I’m standing in the supermarket again, reaching in my pocketfor the list I wrote out on the breakfast counter at … More

Old Man Eating Alone in a Chinese Restaurant

for Billy Collins I can’t resist the temptationto write about you, old man,eating alone at the corner table in a … More

A Head in the Honey Pot Forever

Unbelievable that it’s all come down to this, the tossingin of the handful of soil and the long stemmed roseto … More

The Way We Walk

Once, walking through the forest where the Bayan Tree Plaza stands today,I stepped on a branch with a thorn so … More

Pathetic Prophetic

At that insightful moment in this wall-building exercise,I flashed upon those muscles allowing me to pick upthe next stone, that … More

Walking That Way

Sadness sets in counting the steps, not looking up, not looking forward. Making your way there watching your feet move, … More

The End of Innocence

Here’s my rough draft for today, Sunday 01.16.22 The End of the Innocence Imagine the biggest chocolate bar you could … More

Playing Old

When it’s time for me to pretend I’ve grown old,I’ve decided the most important thingI’ll need to be able to … More

Never Fear

I’m at the age where nostalgia’s candleburns bright.The yearning for something from the pastcan beunbearable at times,the bursting chest and … More

Today

When your legs moved like wheels,the pounding exhilarating,arms pumping, well-oiled pistons,remember the more and more of a young blood rush. Such … More