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

What I’ve Unlearned

It was up there somewhere, that ideal place where the dead waited for me.I learned about afterlife and angels long … More

A Funny Bone Tickled Razor Teeth

The sea rises and falls helpless under the moon waves roll on their cover – in sunlight birds dove and … More

A Good Listener

I could smell it on him the moment he entered the room.  Even more than usual.  My eyes began to water. You’d … More

InSignificance

On the board it says in gigantic letters:Save — Do Not Erase!double underlined, a mathematical equationsurrounded by a huge protective square,so … More

Seeing Things

“There there there!” says Eddie, pointing through the crack in the curtain. “See what I mean?” I still don’t see … More

What Dreams May Come

A dream you dreamt. It’s the one that surprises you at noon the following day. Eating your sandwich or washing … More

The House of Missing Keys, Part 14

As Chan and Yamamoto waited for the coroner, Hank Lee, to arrive, they sat on the sofa across the coffee … More