Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
each time
we bar chitchat then you are from belize i have never met anyone from belize it appears to you that i sincerely want to know your life story an expression…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
Nighthawks – Chapter 2 by RBIBEAU (revised)
When you wish hard enough for something, you might get it. It was getting late, and I moved over to a barstool to tell her that I was in the…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
Dat Buggah, Ma Fadda
“So what da buggah said?” ma madda asked afta ma fadda dropped me off. “About what?” “About what?” she said, mocking me. “How about what he promised fo pay me…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
Get Ready
There were six of us in that first group admitted to the Ph.D. program in English at UH Manoa. Two of us were local born and bred. I was the…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
“So what da buggah said?”
“So what da buggah said?” Rudy the barber asks me. “Some bullshit about Denise and Chris.” I’m waiting for a haircut. Out of the corner of my eye, I see…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
But No
Each burning moment passing me I longer long for long-lost things Though red-hot fire her ashen cold The north star’s nearness clasped Within her eye and ice A minute interlude…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
Sybil
The vendors are swarming us. “I see your future,” she says, grabbing at my arm. “You like know? One hundred yuan.” I glance at her. She has coke-bottle thick glasses….
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
Ghost
Rain drizzled outside the window. How much? It’s $200. He looked back at her. Do you want it all now? She shook her head. No. Then is okay. And only…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
I Shall Never See
A long journey Joyce Kilmer Park in the Bronx To his home in New Brunswick, New Jersey Walking the way A pilgrim’s quest I come Gateway to his mansion Behind…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
Just Desserts
Vanilla: Jim doesn’t have a cell phone. Shuns the dark side. Jim’s privacy, for nowadays, is greater than most. Strawberry: Dick Cheney called Edward Snowden a traitor. Snowden considered that…