The Feud

The Elgin Marbles have stood up well, true, not wasting much under the rude press of time, considering their grief … More

Love Struck

My eyes burning and blurry fixed on the Honolulu International Center arena where she’s with her family at a kung … More

Race

In Hawai‘i, my Korean half dominates my look, so I blendin with the majority, no one can even tell I’m … More

Old Story

In a moment in my golden years I wonder if I’m an onion, each year representing another layer of love … More

If it wasn’t for bad luck

Destiny, a word redolent with possibility,is an outer world, one beyond usbut around us.As we live our lives we bump … More

Three, Two, One

He jumps in his car and drives,from the Oakland docks, remember?and drives fastO, Death, Ralph Stanley,running round on a loop, … More

Get Quiet

I watch as the party rages on across the way. It’s now officially after midnight, and no one’s phoned the … More

The Authors’ Voices

Like dog whistles we can’t be heard. If you could hear all of us, together, you’d never let us into … More

Missing Pages

I’m stapling together revised 5-year projections,our support staff still working remotely.I love this stapler, well worth the money,handling more than … 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

Vinyl’s Final

Vinyl was as good as dead, but it’s making a comeback.Like Lazarus, LPs have risen from the grave.The last time … More

The Stuff of Dreams

The first time I traveled there, a lengthy journeyall the way from Hawai‘i, I was alreadyan old man, had long … More

The Taking of Medicine

Dave’s here from Wisconsin, and we’re swimming at Ala Moana Beach,despite the posted bright orange jellyfish warning signs.I’ve assured him … More

Old Enough to Deal

I liked to gamble back then,had to have the perfect dealer,searched hard for someone special. With her I had a … More

This six-foot wide divide

So we sit “beside” each other. We’re noteven supposed to be touching now I know.Oh, how that’s so not beside … More

Kū‘auhau (Genealogy)

Once upon a time there was a little girl from Chicago, City of the Big Shoulders, And there was a … More

Breakfast After a Bad One

Old lovers are ghosts, pass the pancakes,pass the syrup, blueberry, not maple, please,the way they shift themselves into our consciousness,when … More

The Gardener

I’m watching through the running glass window, an old one from 1926.I see my father, his figure slightly distorted in … More