Hawai‘i Literature & Art
— Since 1978 —
25-word entry (written first): How many phases of yourself have you swallowed into darkness, consuming the light of creation reflected in luminous smiles? A growing goddess is always hungry….
100 words first My sister and I always had to do the dishes. One washed, the other dried. We switched every day, figured it would be less boring that way….
PERAMBULATIONS (100 words first) In the very old days, Walking four miles From Belfair to Bear Creek After basketball practice Got me home Just in time for dinner. No mean…
No Left Turns (First) 25 words I wanted to dance Tahitian in Waikiki. I was almost an exchange student in Argentina. I was fearless. My Mother wasn’t. Paths for other…
(100 words first) English is my native language. In Madison, those dirty looks, the sing-song comments, sometimes it was as if I spoke another language, foreign, another tongue unknown to…
Again, friends, Jim Harstad has suggested this month’s writing contest rules. Here they are: First, write a piece that is either exactly 25 or exactly 100 words long. Then, if…
Trapped air moans from the open mouth at the edge of a splash zone. Silver bars of a hospital bed. Smell of iodine. Kiss goodbye.
25-word entry (written first): She drew a line across her wrist. Cleaved her face in two. Delineated the left breast. Continued. Chinese here, she thought. Hawaiian here. Half everywhere. 100-word…
100 words poem – first 2019 Running mentally and physically I die I despise running We have cars now Why do we need to run It seems kind of pointless…
(100 first) Sharing the world her laboring tongue the modern poet knows what she is capable of when others insult her usage of words reproach her senseless paragraphs impossible to…