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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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Soundproof

For the first two years in Madison, I live in Susan Bradford Hall. It’s on Greek Row. Once a dorm … More

#WriterMonday, #Love, #Music, #StoriesfromHawaii

Fever

When you see your shadowfollowing you around, youmay imagine someoneworking for the FBI, CIA,or any of those surveillanceagencies has been … More

#Covid, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterMonday

Gaze

I squint, and even though I oddly see you tiny and distorted through the peephole, I can make out her … More

#Love, #Music, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Secrecy, #WriterMonday

Social Interaction

Returning, your tongue must be hung on a coat hook, your language each evening left skewered at the door, as … More

#Companionship, #Pandemic, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterMonday

The Basement

The trip down is always tricky in the dark.  Have you ever had something to do, some minor task, that you … More

#Fear, #Mystery, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterMonday

Flight

It’s funny, I thought – on the non-stop to New York,staring out at the little pockets of light spread againstthe … More

#life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Travel, #WriterMonday

A Quick Trip Home

My dad used to have them outside his den. I remember sneaking down there in the dead of night to … More

#CrimeFiction, #FathersandSons, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterMonday

Solitaire

Two months since I left Wisconsin, packed up and moved home to Hawai‘i. The phone rings, and it’s her. I … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterMonday

The Right Question

So I was walking right behind this guy, following him into Longs. Bam. He went directly to the nearest cashier, … More

#Arguments, #Criminals, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterMonday

Only Ifs

Only Ifs One moment I’m lying on the ground staring at the sky,writhing in pain because I’ve broken my ankle, … More

#life, #ParentsandChildren, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterMonday

Getting To Know You

We held a first party yesterday, those of us who could finally attend.After all this time being apart so much, … More

#Covid, #life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterMonday

The House of Missing Keys, Part 9.

Before they knocked on Glenn Makia’s door, Chan and Yamamoto walked out on the pier. The boat was a double-masted … More

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #WriterMonday

Maybe You Can’t Fix What I Have

Broken when the US mail chokes how my letters take so much time is it there yet read it immediately … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterMonday

Now and Then

We sit sipping coffee.  Awkward.  Growing cold. My son and daughter, I say, in their 30s, have given me three grandchildren. I … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterMonday

We Meet

That night I saw you firecracker starburst red,ablaze in a beautifully carved body,an exquisite silhouette scribed against the dark,your hand … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterMonday

No More Nice Things

Crayon and magic markers that never came off the walls;paint on the carpets and doors;knife and screwdriver carved furniture and … More

#Art, #ParentsandChildren, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterMonday

Self Help

As agreed, I am waiting in the Self Help section of the bookstore.I read in a randomly selected book that … More

#Marriage, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterMonday

Unwound

My legs are tired, heavy.Each step’s more a slog.The clock slows down.Someone forgot to wind it.Used to stay on top … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #Time, #WriterMonday

The Summer Solstice

It’s the longest day of the year, in terms not about how your life is trending, but daylight hours. For … More

#Fall, #life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Seasons, #Spring, #WriterMonday

For a Minute or Two, Maybe

I did not know what weather meant until I went to Wisconsin.Winter in Hawai‘i, more rain. Summer, more heat.Spring and … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Weather, #Wisconsin, #WriterMonday

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