Forbidden Fruit

When I was a kid, I’d walk up my hill on the way home from school.There was a place halfway … More

Do Them Part

Someone wake him before he dreams of her again.On the shore, two with pants legs, their cuffs rolled upto save … More

When Vacations End

Back from Korea,I realize to my horrorwhen I wake up,dizzy from jet-lag,that I have to cook for myself.Breakfastand lunchand dinner.All … More

Mourning Calm

I’m back, I thought, as I stepped off the plane,returned to my ancestral home once more,recalling all my blood bound … More

A New Way

The beginning’s in the end, you know.Good advice, like how a closing door signalssome new one opening, or a window, … More

Alan

Whenever we met, Alan would gift mewith the latest collection of short storieshe’d found while browsing used bookstores. Whenever we … More

Neighborly

There’s a corner of my lot where five properties meet.It’s the least maintained part of any of our yards.Every time … More

The Hardest Thing

I know what hard is, I’ve done some difficult things,and admitting I have a problem certainly wasn’t easy.  Getting myself … More

Beauty’s Truth

Close as night and day, you say,we’re friends, just friends, for now,so let’s see what happens, you say.Bark to a … More

Missed Miles

Travel catch-upFrance friesChina frailsIreland fleetsNorway wavers Korea warnsAntarctica whelms Yesterdays of anytimeDesire returnedAche in the plane seatFatigue flying time zonesDay after … More

From Then To

I remember the dawn’s first early light,silhouettes of darkened heads bob love,no secret anymore, amore in paradise,no strangers to me … More

Speak with the Dead

I quit watching the clock some time ago.  Factssuch as my age, or what day or month or yearit is often escape … More

So Much up in the Air

Nothing much gets the old adrenaline going now, but even if you’re tired, you know, you have to force yourself … More

Long May She Wave

Yet no one passing by stoops to retrievethis fragment of our flag oddlyleft to weather on the roadside.Tattered and fading … More

Do What I Must Do

If I’ve told these people once, I’ve told them a thousand times:let sleeping dragons lie, folks, for roused, they’re bad … More

Premonition

Bob’s alarm jerked him out of a bad dream. When he opened his eyes, he was saved from a grand … More

Puzzling

She turns both the box cover and bottom over, taps themon the coffee table, asks me did I hide the … More

The Funeral

There is no one who knows a father’s kneebetter than a child who wraps his armsaround that knee and clings to it like … More

Haven’t you learned anything? she says

What is it you see out there?  What do you hear? My woman standing at the window staring out into the … More

Hard To Relate

I saw them on the sidewalk up ahead, a tall Haole guy, very fit, maybe six-feet two, in a tank-top … More