Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
Growing up Local
Junior gave me a Primo six-pack when I turned thirteen.
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
Here’s the draft of a poem I’m working on today
One Way of Looking I didn’t think I had anything to do today but I checked my calendar just in case this aging memory of mine sometimes mistaken This week…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
Finding My Mom’s Choir Robe
They sang, Sunday chorus, practiced perfect pitch always in three pew rows, their robes bright white, Saturday washed and ironed, starched to make the pleats sharp as the polished rims…
Bamboo Shoots offshoot
Ho’omaika’i
Watch Riatea Helm on ‘Oiwi TV Here’s a draft I came up with today, Saturday 06.01.19. Wow, it’s amazing what you might stumble across on the internet quite by chance….
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
Crossing Time
Crossing Time Each of us different, yet both of us the same for we are a part of the whole, that same fabric woven of history, each in stitch and…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
Another ten-word story
This wine took him higher. He never sent the letter.
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
One and Two and One Is Four (for GK and BG)
They came to the funeral together. I hadn’t seen either of them since that Super Bowl party at Jimmy’s house. I’d needed a break from that whole group scene after…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
Six-word poem and ten-word story
Bamboo Ridge Lum Chock Heart Soul Lum and Chock founded Bamboo Ridge Press. Happily ever after.
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
Fly Me the Moon — Chapter Two
Chapter One Rudy knows people, and, because he knows people, Rudy loves birds. It is not enough to say that he likes, admires, envies, and adores all birds — he…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
to describe it I think
it’s underneath the way she used to speak to stay alive she spoke in a buried kind of way above the horizon yes but at the same time the dark…