To fall in love with the first manIn your young life, you meetProtected from the world, you wereAbandoned on a … More
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Identity
Life split all about with many inklingsZig a beloved bright youth onwardYears removed sausage segmentsSliced away blade cuts one by … More
Do Not Try To Pet Bears
Australia, how would you know this?Barren of bears as AntarcticaAnd all your penguins silent on the subject No bear has ever … More
Largo
The slow spreadingThis body built by usPaunchy some and doughyRounds of beer and wineAnd sugar roses of no uglinessFrench food … More
Chapter 16: An Odd Body
David Chan was very curious about what might be up at the morgue. So much so that he used his light … More
Me and You
You’re like a combination bar and restaurantWhen I come in I’m torn between hunger and thirstTry to ease the tension … More
Chapter 7: A Long Night
I came awake in the dark. It took me a moment to figure out where I was and what I … More
Down the darkened hall I see
a distant little door before whichyour message sits, like you, I wonder,waiting. The journey from herewill take an hour, from there … More
Coming
The kind of laughterWe laughedWhen we were 21Drunk at 2:00 a.m.The loud kindOf who cares at that ageConfident and easyBouncing … More
Vienna Waits
The bones of ancestorsPeace and good willWatch against darknessWarn against strifeWish enlightenmentWhen inquiry yields its wayAll mysteries recedeA greater distance … More
On Achieving Negative Space
When I eat now, I’ll leavehalf a sandwich or an applepartially consumed, bothbearing accusatory bite marks,the back half of my … More
And More
My parents were good parents, allowing meTo lay the foundations of my literary fixation From an early age when they … More
Confrontation (Part Six)
When Chris reached the field, he noticed a large man, maybe Hawaiian-Portuguese, sitting on the bleachers. He had a whistle … More
Broken Is Broken
Don’t pick up the pieces, put them back together,then tell me, Hey, look, it’s as good as new, all right? … More
Theme
So to forget about last night’s dream,a mass forgetting cannot happen too soon,you wake up and start the search again … More
Chapter 20: Discovering a Father
Sung-min Kwon did not understand what the man meant about his father having killed Lt. David Chan. Kang Yu could … More
The Apple Doesn’t Fall
Few apple trees will fruit this latein fall, but I do see a fewin the far misting distance,the children I’ve … More
Like Grandfather, Like Father, Like Grandson
Byung Yu fidgeted with his cigarette holder. To call his father, why worry so much? Certainly not a child anymore, … More
The Movies
I remember the theater, the old movies festival, the music, and you, the smell of popcorn filling the lobby, that … More
How To Kill Superman
“Yes, of course,” said Byung Yu. “If – I mean when you kill David Chan, you will have killed Honolulu’s … More
Lanning Lee 