Anesthesia

“Mister Lee, are you awake?”        The thick, long blue curtains are pulled back, and light slips into the tiny room. … More

The Myth of Every Hope Fulfilled

From the top of the Gwangbok Lotte Department StoreI can see the Yeongdo(daegyo) Draw Bridge crossing Busan Harbor.From this height, … More

Murder, He Dreamed

Ever feel like you should be on trial for something?With what we get away with over our life’s course,do you … More

Premonition

Bob’s alarm jerked him out of a bad dream. When he opened his eyes, he was saved from a grand … More

What Dreams May Come

A dream you dreamt. It’s the one that surprises you at noon the following day. Eating your sandwich or washing … More

Family Tree

I’m sleeping, I think; this has the vivid feeling of a dream.Before my house was rebuilt, a huge mango tree … More

And Found

We walk hand-in-hand down a green grass path. I see the undersides of overhead leaves. They are a deep brown, … More

From Dream to Dream

I believe I see down the aisle someone who dreams,  by the black tights and leg warmers, of colossal success, … More

Mr. Balloon Animal Man

When I do a thorough spring cleaning every five or ten yearsof random areas in my house, I’ll find things … More

Going Pro

By the time she was twelve, she’d risen to the top of the amateur circuit here in Hawai‘i.  Her parents, … More

Eating Healthy

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

When Lips Dream

Your lips dream dreams of their own. Their tiny brains only have room for good memories of kisses. A lifetime … More

A Dream Within a Dream

I listened to my boss’s pep talk. Let me make this clear as crystal to all of you.You’ve heard, I … More

The Homecoming (Part Two)

He sipped his tea.  Black tea in the daytime, green tea at night, right?  Or was it the other way … More

My Flying Machine

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

That Heart-Shaped Box

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

Spinning

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, … More

A Body at Rest

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

Breakfast After a Bad One

Old lovers are ghosts, pass the pancakes,pass the syrup, blueberry, not maple, please,the way they shift themselves into our consciousness,when … More

Vaccination Reaction

Last Friday, brightly believing that I’d now become immune to Covid because of finally receiving the first of two Pfizer … More