Broken is Broken

Don’t pick up the pieces, put them back together,then tell me, Hey, look, it’s as good as new, all right? … More

Cooling

In the shade, he sat enjoying his shave iceunder a banyan tree, the sound of wavesrolling on, the wrinkled ocean … More

Into our heavy shame wedges truth,sharp, an accusing guilt that can move usnowhere, cannot carry us back in timeto change … More

A steeple dynasty palm grows its spiked shadow umbrellaover sand’s losing battle, washed out by thin skimming water. They scatter, … More

Life for them, they think, is as dull as a ship drifting in the doldrums,and they say so, some young … More

In every family there is one central soul,the energetic heart that pumps life blood to all,the bond of it all … More

Pressing themselves, all of them, into permanent wallflowers, these young people gone flat at functions, standing still, eyes lasers on … More

Our father says the sound is loud enough to wake the dead. The music is alive tonight in infinite weathered … More

I did not recognize Keola. If you’ve not seen someone for, say, 25 years, you might have little difficulty recognizing … More

I touch him carefully and wait. Nothing happens. I lay my hand on him, stroke him. This perks him up … More

If you lived an eternity in each moment, he wondered,why wouldn’t that mean you’d only ever live for a single … More

The only way to get in there, she believed without question, was throughperforming good deeds, the living by and through … More

He’d joined on the Daegu because his uncle captained that long-line vessel.It was grueling work, worse his stomach betrayed him … More

Dreaming, he recollected the building as his old high school.Floating on air, he was transported into a classroom there.On the … More

When I was 21 and tired of school, tired of anger, and sick of hurting,at Fisherman’s Wharf, I watched ships … More

For one, you were a sleight-of-hand magician,and I still haven’t figured out all of the tricks youpulled, a tribute to … More

I lie and watch TV on Christmas Day with no desire,really, to glean anything of value from it, not understandinghalf … More

Right now, we’re on a South Korean island, Jeju,sitting in what China calls the East China Sea,and what the Koreans, … More

The beginning’s in the end, you know.Good advice, like how a closing door signalssome new one opening, or a window, … More

Kahi felt like an idiot. He’d seen this so many times on TV, read about it in stories. If you … More