Rough Cut

I read that a 90-minute movie optimally accommodates our 2021 attention spans. In the back of my mind I recall … More

Forgetting

When I walk to the top of my hill each day, reach the end of the road,there is one object … More

Here’s my draft for today, Aloha Friday, 09.24.21 To See What He Had Seen — Part Three Captain Kauhane emerged … More

Will, more than ample to move your miraculous pen forward, versing out divine lines like lightning striking, always looking ahead … More

I’ve been worrying about something with increasing distress. Yesterday, after I wrote a poem about walking to lose Covid weight … More

It would be twelve more years before my father quit smoking. While he was no longer at his college fighting weight, … More

Begin with beer. Talk loud over the noise. Try the soup. Talk about work. Eat a burger. Talk about family. … More

Beware, I’d heard, the staring into it too long, excessive water gazing made much of by him, for you may … More

For two nights straight, she’s come in around 8:00. She sits down right in front of the stage. Immediately when … More

2020 hung on like the fabled in-laws of horror lorewhose interminable visit, born of some hitched up sufferer’stearful nostalgia for … More

What I remember of him was he never seemed to take things too seriously, the spin of him, how he … More

I promised back then that if one day our situation worsened to the pointwhere people became belligerent and screamed at … More

“Look,” my wife says, “they don’t go all the way under.” I see but am not relieved. “They lock you … More

I finished my tea and what did I see this morning to my dismay? Those little black leaves at the … More

What do you do when you have a harder and harder time expressing in words what is running through your … More

Your lips dream dreams of their own. Their tiny brains only have room for good memories of kisses. A lifetime … More

Every morning my father brings in the newspaper, pours himself a cup coffee, then sits at the dining room table … More

In this post-pandemic world, travel had become trickier. On top of the health layers, people didn’t act the way they … More

He dreamed he grew up so empty he became a hollow echo of resoundingly resonant invisible soundlessness. Nothing he ever … More

To say that you have nothing but time is an exercise in self-delusion. They tied a rag around his face … More