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Lanning Lee

Aloha and e komo mai. I'm an author of prose and poetry born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. I publish a daily rough draft here on my author site. Please read with me, comment, and please share your own writing. Mahalo for reading, and a hui ho.

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Carpool

I’m not sure why you and I called it a carpool. It wasjust we two, and I always drove. There … More

#Beverages, #Driving, #Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday

Soundproof

For the first two years in Madison, I live in Susan Bradford Hall. It’s on Greek Row. Once a dorm … More

#WriterMonday, #Love, #Music, #StoriesfromHawaii

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

#Drinking, #Loss, #Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

Haven’t you learned anything? she says

What is it you see out there?  What do you hear? My woman standing at the window staring out into the … More

#Education, #Learning, #Love, #Marriage, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

Gaze

I squint, and even though I oddly see you tiny and distorted through the peephole, I can make out her … More

#Love, #Music, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Secrecy, #WriterMonday

Coming to the Center

We find ourselves entering a corridor of language, she from the eastern door, and I from the west.  We take steps, … More

#Language, #Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSunday

The Flip Side

The music stopped, but we kept dancing.  We could hear the melody going on, even though the musicians were packing up. … More

#Love, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterSunday

Choice

The consequences of confused minds would have bound us in that spot.  We’d just found majority, still too young to live … More

#Law, #Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday

One Two One

We park and she says nothing; it’s getting dark. I follow in her hunting, block after block, down one street, … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

A Good Listener

I could smell it on him the moment he entered the room.  Even more than usual.  My eyes began to water. You’d … More

#Love, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

Solitaire

Two months since I left Wisconsin, packed up and moved home to Hawai‘i. The phone rings, and it’s her. I … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterMonday

An Unsuitable Way for You To End It With Me

I’ve been dumped many times, and one thing I’ll sayis that every time it happens it’s so awfully cliché.I hate … More

#BreakingUp, #Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

Do Us Part

June, they say, is for weddings, and lovers often schedule their exchange of vows accordingly. Some couples may not know … More

#Love, #Marriage, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterSunday

Something Blue

She brought such joy under each moon, the air quiver of a cricket’s sharp chirp tingling, a pierce of air … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSaturday

Release

In the end, unwound and desperate, the cold head of the match gone dead, you are being drowned in darkness. … More

#Death, #Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

labor under old love’s illusion

unblinking at a new moonmoving thin skin outlinesilver sliver shimmering roundperfect, the odd center of it allmilky, muddled, blotchy, shadowedtaken all … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Time, #WriterSunday

We’ll Meet Again (for AT)

It’s April, the cruel one, and still heavy jacket chilly.Madison in April sometimes feel like mid-winter.I recall those odd days … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSunday

Maybe You Can’t Fix What I Have

Broken when the US mail chokes how my letters take so much time is it there yet read it immediately … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterMonday

Love’s Countdown

In the beginning there was inertia,and inertia led, as you might expect,to nothing, so what had beensomethingness became nothingness: Take-out … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterSaturday

It Felt So Good

That Sony radio’s cheap black leather strapjust barely tied the music to my wrist.So poorly made I feared it just … More

#Love, #Marriage, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterWednesday

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