He jumps in his car and drives,from the Oakland docks, remember?and drives fastO, Death, Ralph Stanley,running round on a loop, … More
Tag: #Time
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
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
All I Had To Do
I have been dreaming myself into stories again. These should be some of the quietest journeys I will ever take, … More
The Laundry Line
There is nowhere else to go, all the doors and windows are locked, so I sit here on the stairs, … More
A Morning Ritual
She watched him every morning, very closely, waiting for something. He would sit slumped in his seat at the table. … More
Checkout
They entered West Towne Mall and Mrs. Goodman gave great thanks for the warmth. It was officially the coldest winter … 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
No Game Stop
We were that amusement, some bright, shiny object,the birthday toy, the circus mobile spinning above the crib to mesmerizeor maybe … More
This is now
Sometimes I think I’ve becomethat man it’s said will never understand the boyeven though he has been that boybecause he’s … More
A Way with Words
We’d all grown up together from small-kid time, most from age three or four, so far survived school, work, bad … More
that spot there
on a map we scana pinpoint we missangel almost headeddance so finestuck too throughfound unfoundout the other sidelost, no, lost, … More
Cold Comfort
He fortifies himself against the cold journey ahead,this way too frigid life for a Kaua‘i boy,downing one last long sip … More
When Will Rogers Met Donald Trump
Stuck here at home, unable to see my family anymore,lying in bed at night I think, with short, shallow breaths … More
Shanghai Tower
I wouldn’t get caught dead in Dubai, so probably then in the endthe tallest building I’ll ever have visited in … More
Time Lesson 10: Cutting Ties
He had a baby once.He didn’t survive the pregnancy.Neither did it. Neither did she.A crisis back then. What to do, … More
Time Lesson 7: Stop the Clock
Benevolent Time sat cross-legged on the mantle smiling,saying she’d push it over, her index finger often fakingflicking it, when, to … More
Time: Lesson 6 (Picture It)
It’s a storm brewing a good distance away, hit or pass me questions,perfectness of June moons, the chaos of a … More
Time: Lesson #4
See here, this is her jigsaw puzzle, given to me early on, that from the firstI can remember, I began … More