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Lanning Lee

Aloha and e komo mai. I'm an author of prose and poetry born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. I publish a daily rough draft here on my author site. Please read with me, comment, and please share your own writing. Mahalo for reading, and a hui ho.

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Sojourn

More seen, more said, more heard, more thought, their bags packed ever heavier by travel as they go,  the making … More

#life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Travel, #WriterFriday

The Way We Walk

Once, walking through the forest where the Bayan Tree Plaza stands today,I stepped on a branch with a thorn so … More

#Aging, #Childhood, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday

The Last Meeting Mantra

We slouch around the conference table like sagging pillars of Stonehenge, all of us engrossed as vegans in the prospect … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday, Work

Earth Day 04.22.2022

Happy Earth Day to you, Earth. Our apologies for everything we’ve done to you. We wish we could go back … More

#Ecology, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday

A Snail’s Pace

Contemplate the snail, any kind of snail.More than 40,000 snail species slowly roam the earth,all peacefully paced, wending their way … More

#Death, #life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday

Too Patient

It’s been harder for me to step across that line.You’ve been waiting there for me for such a long time.If … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday

Scorpio Rose

The moon wasn’t in the second house, nor did Jupiter and Mars align. The planets weren’t guided by peace, and … More

#Birthdays, #GivingBirth, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday

Phraseology

My dad had a store of useful phrases for any occasion.Most memorable for me was, “I need X like I … More

#Fathers, #FathersandSons, #Language, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday

Nightmare 101

Welcome, students, before we get started,I’d like to get to know a little about you.There’s an index card on your … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #School, #Teaching, #WriterFriday

To Place a Face

I am standing in line for coffee. Even though the social distance floor dots have disappeared, everyone stands a decent … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Time, #WriterFriday

The Hours

The first time I read Mrs. Dalloway I was quite young, 21 maybe. And I was struck by her age, 51, and … More

#Age, #Death, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Time, #WriterFriday

The Honesty Policy

Albert could hear him stop on the other side of the door.  He sounded like an asthmatic, as if the exertion … More

#Games, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterFriday

All Those Miles

“Put ‘er there, pal,” he says, sounding as though he’s stepped out of an O. Henry story. I put my … More

#StoriesfromHawaii, #Travel, #WriterFriday, Friendship, Time

A Judge of Character

“Sir? Excuse me?” Ronald Ito turns around, sees it’s an older security guard. Close cropped silver hair, the kind of … More

#CharacterSketch, #HawaiiCrimeFiction, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterFriday

It Was a Dream

“It’s right there,” he said, pointing to the small break in the tree line, hard to tell from this far … More

#Death, #Fathers, #StoriesfromHawaii, #War, #WriterFriday

Saving Face

That is some face framed by snaking black hair right behind the glass highly visible precisely to be so seen … More

#Photographs, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday

This Sweet Work’s Worth

It’s coming again, like some slouching beast. I see all the drooling signs in the stores, the ones that make … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Valentine'sDay, #WriterFriday

Spring, Madison, Wisconsin, 2022

It’s another spring coming that I won’t be back in Madison,go there to write, my personal writing workshop, a retreat,where … More

#OnWriting, #Pandemic, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday

Auld Lang Syne

He wasn’t a mean man. The lack of emotion that everyone saw in him, was just that. He no longer … More

#Grandparents, #Loss, #ParentsandChildren, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterFriday, New Years

Side Effects

He’d never been big on lines, but this one he didn’t mind. It snaked back and forth between the stanchions … More

#Pandemic, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterFriday

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