Here’s my rough draft for today, Saturday 05.30.26. We Mortals Be It may not be a universally acknowledged truth. It should: … More
Tag: #Love
Autumn in Korea
Fade in place awayRain turn to mist in warm touchPhoto glowing giftsNo buried king’s goldMore treasured than you burningA face … More
What Happens in Busan
Whenever I saw the ad, I’d wonder what would stay thereAdultery, drugs, murder – what threshold needed to be metHow … More
Was It Only a Moment?
Losing pages dog-eared as my life like chapter timesRead my path like a book left fading on a pale benchWhen … More
The Getaway
When I look back, over my shoulder, I see ours had to be the sort of loveThat must be transitory, … More
Word Picture
The urge of whirling stars told me sleepingI should write about you today but I only seeA coursing down of … More
Dirt
This morning, running the vacuum in the living roomThe face of an old flame popped into my headAnd for a … More
Groove
You pause a beat from being yourselfTake a sharp breath as you put you on holdLift the needle that vibrates … More
You Are a Star
It was the perfect way your body woreThe “I am a Star” T-shirt I brought to MadisonA collector’s item printed … More
The Case of the Eternal Adolescents
The Hardy boys never had sexNever produced progeny to perpetuate the detective family dynastyNo junior detectives carrying on the family traditionFrank … More
The Burning
Merry Christmas, the card was white, like Madison snowAnd like snow does, it’s become splotched with brown. I remember when you … More
Wistful
Very soon, she said, maybe next weekHer face pressed against the pillowDamp from this night we sweated in the humidityOf … More
Aftermath
At the rate they were rifling through the houseIt wouldn’t take them long for them to clean outEverything of any … More
Fall Apart
You may think your love’s perfectly pieced togetherThe final puzzle as pretty as the picture on the boxEvery curve and … More
Shadow Cast
Doris sat smiling at the shadow. She knew why it was cast that way. It had come to her while … More
She Was There
I came home in time to catch the tail end of the showThe part where he found her finallyBecause even … More
He ha’awina ka’u i ka pō nei (I had a dream last night)
Where the world of aloha I’d knownFor most of my life fell awayPulled out from under me, the nasty trick … More
How We Grow
Magical, the way our lives danced like a fairytale spinningCharmed amalgam of fantasy, dream, and highest heartsMy good fortune our … More
From Words to Silence
I write to keep you safe, captured in these wordsI keep you leaving traces and love’s truthsYou live on in … More
The Road’s Been Long
The road has been some sort of songLonger than the 45 I thought it might beCloser to the beginningAnd winding … More
Lanning Lee 