A Meditation

Being alive always struck me as a kind of double-edged sword.To be afraid of the unknown, I suppose, is natural.I … More

From Dream to Dream

I believe I see down the aisle someone who dreams,  by the black tights and leg warmers, of colossal success, … More

The Gift of Quick Disclosure

She asked what it was before she unwrapped it. Do you ever wonder why people ask that about gifts?It’s as … More

Do You Remember? (An Old Car)

Listening to Neil YoungI saw your face in the fire.It took me back to Madisonand winter walks in the night.Remember … More

A Medical Miracle

For a long time now, when I’d be eating my cornflakes at the breakfast table, I’d keep thinking you were … More

To Dream the Impossible Dream

Ever wonder if it’s spring’s choice to grow green grass and all those leaves and flowers?Or is spring coerced, preferring … More

Odds Are

It’s best to be born mid-century.I was born in 1954, just a babe in the nuclear age.If you come in … 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

E komo/kipa mai?

It’s fuckin fucked up ovah here Everybody coming not jes for play tourist But fo fuckin live, permanent kine, like … More

Photo Album

RandyIwalani LiaMickey Me MinnieLeina‘ala Robert RolandAlisha MeishaPeleMe Karen MRod RhondaEllen BettyPaul Karen LChris JonAudrey Me Kaori TinaMerle Snoopy JunkoAllison M … More

On the Way

We’d become friends back in elementary school,she and I waiting for our dads to pick us up,we’d sit on the … More

Season Signification

Summer, spring, and winter each have one name only, but fall is also autumn, autumn fall, and then somewhere hidden … 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

Bread Alone

There were no more good reasons I could come up with, no more desperate excuses I could dream up for … More

Walk This Way

She said that the way I walked was funny. I asked why, so she demonstrated. She swung her shoulders and … More

Singular

Anytime you have the chance to see a blue blossom, be thankful for it, maybe bless it. Blue is the … More

Life Insurance

Among other jobs, my dad sold insurance. Salesman that he was, he would go anywhere necessary to visit clients, and … More

Blue Mounds

We are walking the area called Blue Moundsjust outside of Madison, on a sunny summer day.It’s another picnic, she loves … More