This used to be a poem, but now it’s not. I tried to make it pretty, but it didn’t turn … More
Tag: #OnWriting
Nantucket
There once was a bard from Hawai‘iWho penned little poems as a hobbyFrom the time he learned lettersHe got better … More
The Tellers of the Tales
They are the scalpels into the heart of the storyCatalogers of the tales of life, of death, and beyondSpeakers of … More
The Fabled Cliché
Never say a good or a bad egg.However, if there is an egg involveddo not ever assume it is an … More
Will
Will, more than ample to move your miraculous pen forward, versing out divine lines like lightning striking, always looking ahead … More
So-So Funny
Students writing their PhD dissertations, that gobstruck time, wandering like zombies, as though they’ve been whacked on the head with … More
On Writing and Reading
I’ve been worrying about something with increasing distress. Yesterday, after I wrote a poem about walking to lose Covid weight … More
Hunting for a Subject
I was sitting at the Tahitian Lānai piano barwith the actual Surgeon General of the United States,on vacation here in … More
Tell Me a Story About
So you’re sitting in a room with a blank piece of paper or a blank screen in front of you. … More
dot dot dot
pretend you knew where you were goingand now you’ve run into usso follow along the silent spaces we speak in … More
Poetic thought
The more I drinkthe higher the cigarette butts pile up in the ashtraythe more I think . . . That … More
Want
May the insignia of the light they cast substantiate me,driving my aim for words written to convey everythingI can glean, … More
