Dormant daylilies flaunt dead brown stalks. Assorted wild plants compete for attention baking in the noon day sun. A super highway of vines tunnel beneath bromeliads skirting salmon bougainvillea teasing…

Your chant commands the room. My heart swells, a witness to your power. Your ancestor’s spirit’s soar through you on native wings, above the clouds of Mauna Kea and Kilauea,…

A birthday makana to a kapa-loving-pounding wahine koa, A’ia’i..,mahalo for the gifts you share with us all.

I once rode a mule down a path carved into steep cliffs sliding through mud soaked ruts thick with slime and loose stones on top of an ornery mule, named…

A gathering of four Hawaiian wahine preparing wauke to pound kapa, practicing mele and ‘oli, talking story, remembering all our relations…sharing under the Hua moon.

Fountain water splashes echoes across the koi pond. Clever Great Danes bark their hello, jump into the air to chase after chew bones anxious for a moment of attention. Sultry…

Frankly this opinion comes at midnight to a dark blind man with a hearing aid, plunging off the edge of a cliff. I would rather eat a rancid piece of…

We get plenty chickens over here. They like play “chicken” with my car. Sometimes they take off wings flapping, like one jet. They like race with my Huyndai. They not…

I can feel your saliva dripping onto my big toe. Belching as you lean against me satisfied as I rub your neck massaging behind your ears. Staring into the distance…

Dedicated to Neda Agha Soltan who was murdered in Tehran, Iran on
June 20, 2009