Living Dead

In a moment of dark magicThe entrancer turned enchanterSpun into a dove and flew awaySome belladonna dancing in the windHer … More

Breathe

When I could bare to stand nakedYour eyes on me for a first timeI prayed for the bestCrossed my fingers … More

Love Forgotten

Give away something dear sometimeTry this and perhaps you’ll not miss itReorder your brain, your heart to accept the absenceGladly … More

Chosen

But that was long agoHer intentIf I recall correctlyWas to steal my heartSet me apartFrom all the othersPounding at her … More

Awash

There’s tension in the rigid repetition of the waves tonightTheir rolling ashore like a ticking clockUnder the full moon spotlightingOur … More

A Good Life

I met a local woman yesterdaywho had moved with her husbandfrom Hawai‘i to Californiato find a better life. Her husband … More

Memoriam

He sufferedThe unkindestOf mental lapsesThe long oneAnd then longer andLonger so very uglyAn omen deeply darkeningTearing a wound gaping abyssThat … More

Night Visits

The night opens my eyesAnd awake will see into the darknessIt’s not that kindSo solid it’s like beingConfined in a … More

Home Bound

I hand-built this pitcher with care for youDid not thrown it mechanically on a wheelBut the hairline cracks from the … More

Small-Talk

You know I’m horrible at small-talkThis is what it’s like when it’s my turnHow I want to say something to … More

Rise

Now we will riseWith no storm suppressionNo night hanging dark heavinessNothing to distort or fadeThat image of usSet long years … More

Eating Chinese

It was with great sadness that I learned my beloved Pauoa Chop Suey has closed down.  In memoriam, I’ve compiled a … More

Against Time

I always plant carefully and tend my garden wellPray, Jim, and keep hoeingHow will my simple garden growNothing even closeTo … More

Love Remains

Articulate toes curlicue venerable sandsMurmur maker, birdsong, youArtistic swirl of bone mixed stone patternsFingers play circles on chicken skinPush time … More

Confrontation (Part Five)

On his way up to football practice at Farrington that afternoon, Chris looked for Denise, but she wasn’t waiting on … More

Cooling

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

Glasses, November 24, 2021

We didn’t pass, I thought, when I was what, getting new glasses,so I didn’t see you, pretty sure, out the … More

I’m Listening Still

“I don’t see it that way,” you say, and I begin the wonder why.We sit cross legged on the floor … More

Under the Sun

The languor of summer days, a drop of sweat.Hit the napkin, plop on the word “miss.” It’sMezcal time here, and … More

This Was the Way

I left you there for just a moment, at the forest’s edge, before we began our journey. When I returned … More