The Taking of Medicine

Dave’s here from Wisconsin, and we’re swimming at Ala Moana Beach,despite the posted bright orange jellyfish warning signs.I’ve assured him … More

VI. Madness This Way

i.I don’t know if it was the auburn hair with golden highlights,or the bright red lipstick smile, the dashing scarf … More

Eventually we may all sort of maybe guess at whatour reviews were, what they might have said about usover the … More

I charged into the heart of darkness, Madison at 2:00 a.m.,so ominous the way it looked like anywhere else, maybeeven … More

Walking backward now I watch myself, my face reversedin the mirrored glass. I open it and turn the clock handsback to … More

I think there was air, but I had trouble finding it,between talking with you and passing out, I madeshort exploratory … More

I see when I have finally walked almost to the endof this said old oak forest, and I am going, … More

I’m no spring chicken, as my dad used to say.What if this is what life will be like until the … More

I picked up the phone and pretended to haveconversations with you, imitating my parentsthe way kids do. But you never seemed … More

the bulb flickers dark to light to dark to lightlike a strobing spotlight making everything go slow-motion it’s twelve feet … More

A big shout out to all those with shuttered dreamswho were in the plays, maybe breaking records,I mean broke, broke … More

I can taste the salt on my lips I lick with my tongueconstantly my lips chapping and peeling a littlefor … More

What’s meant by the “side” of the bed, since you wake up on it,obviously is the half you lie on, … More

We don’t have to play this station anymorethe one with the sick twisted DJ of broken recordsthe shiny vinyl player … More

Here’s a peace of Hawai‘ithat’s in a part of Honoluluwhere I breathe hanging bymy knees so Pauoa Valley’s a mountainand … More

After that fallI thought going to the beachby myselfwas a great way to escapefrom everything. Almost, except, you know, it’s … More

This morning we’re on a tour. I love the tidal pools,alive with multitudes of tiny fish and crabs, and, of … More

Like a pendulum, I swing between insaneand not sitting down to write.Occasionally, when I’m sitting down crazy,I can still vividly … More

I fight Nazis and Japs, big plastic figures I buy with my allowance,colored gray and fleshy yellow, the Nips eyes … More

You will know what real is when you ridethe dreams of smoke and updraft air, waves breakingon the breath of … More