Growing

I wish this shave ice would cool mefaster, and I’m glad for the shadeof this massive old monkeypod tree. We … More

Disillusion

After all, once you’ve discovered something that’s important enough,learned all about a subject that eventually shapes your entire world,found a … More

A Little Advice

Trying to recall, I started counting when you said it,how many times you’d told me that before.“You should never do … More

A Little Death

For cutting and weeding there’s nothing I like morethan my small sickle, its 3-inch serrated bladeeasy to maneuver speedily with … More

Alert

I always drove between Oakland and Madison non-stop, except for food and fuel, no naps, 24 hours straight on the … More

The Fourth Quarter

We’re in our late 60s now. We’ve been getting together to watch the University of Hawai‘i Rainbow football games for … More

Nature Is Revealed

Where are the ones in the suits of gold,those second lookers who’d whiplash our tender necks,the heart beaters who’d burst … More

The Homecoming (Part Five)

In this post-pandemic world, travel had become trickier.  On top of the health layers, people didn’t act the way they … More

When I have fears

in the small hours, fingers interlocked behind my head, I search the hidden ceiling straining to see any star beyond, … More

Hearing Loss

What’s that you’re saying under your breath,a curse or a blessing for me, you’ve done both well.I’ve grown to known … More

It’s hard to be where you aren’t

Because there’s too much headwind whipping now,too much ocean motion for me to feel your ripples,finger skin tendered soft, how … More

Waiting

He thought, They’re waiting for me right now. In days gone by he used to believe this, but it was … More

By day the slow clenching, by night

my tongue bitten to bloody point,harder and harder, I feel it now, and justa little bit harder now, yes, there, … More

I think I know who’s up there

I have suspicions about the last ghost in my housewho does not haunt me, but might have done the washand … More

Assisting the Spirit

Mrs. Cho’s gift was guiding spirits to the afterlife.  People who knew about her ability – and this was all … More

Then and Now

I had to go back to the place on Maui where my father and I used to fish.  Coming to … More

The world, grown old

You know, my fate’s really always come down to you.It’s been that way since 1982.I’ve counted the years nearly every … More

The moment

when sorrow impossibly palesloss of what made sense and words lostcome untethered time and rhymeunreasoned rants in late day hazespeech … More