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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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Tag: #Love

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

Impermanent Ink (Blue Period)

You sent me the self-portrait in a card once, maybe 1980. You are lying on your stomach, propped up on … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterTuesday

Now and Then

We sit sipping coffee.  Awkward.  Growing cold. My son and daughter, I say, in their 30s, have given me three grandchildren. I … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterMonday

We Meet

That night I saw you firecracker starburst red,ablaze in a beautifully carved body,an exquisite silhouette scribed against the dark,your hand … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterMonday

Transistor Days

On the square, silver Sony radiowith the cheap black leatherette wrist strapI always feared would snap,our soundtrack falling lost into … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterSunday

Too Patient

It’s been harder for me to step across that line.You’ve been waiting there for me for such a long time.If … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday

Mind in the Time

Remember that, she says, as we sit sipping coffee, I was all whipped-cream nosed. It has been 40 years since … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterWednesday

Beg Pardon

You use your arms to disguise your breasts as elbows,to stop the wind from licking at them,or cross yourself against … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSunday

Add the Garden

For a long time you have cultured all these seeds,sprouted them like Mother Nature puttering herself,transferred them gently from little, … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterWednesday, #Yardwork

To Place a Face

I am standing in line for coffee. Even though the social distance floor dots have disappeared, everyone stands a decent … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Time, #WriterFriday

Happy Some Before Dawn

Quieter, still quieter, quiet down the energy pent up today, for such recklessness cannot sit wasting by the window ledge … More

#Love, #Music, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Work, #WriterWednesday

Sugar or Salt?

We sat opposite each other, each stirring coffee in thick white cups, trying to cool it off. “Cream,” I said.  “Cream … More

#Love, #Marriage, #ParentsandChildren, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterSunday

Dear Chris,

Thank you for your note letting me know you’d received the notice I sent.  It’s been a long time since we … More

#Love, #ParentsandChildren, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterSaturday

The Door Is Open

Alice was down on her knees scrubbing the kitchen floor when the doorbell rang. The kitchen floor always took a … More

#Disability, #HusbandsandWives, #Love, #Marriage, #MothersandDaughters, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

When Again?

The clock above his computer was a big one. Its tick, tick, tick could be ignored some nights, but not … More

#Companionship, #Love, #Sex, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterMonday

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

#Loss, #Love, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterSunday

On Leaving

As porous as air, sliced Thin, I fall between See you way over there perhaps, or Not, maybe hear your … More

#Loss, #Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday

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