Hawai‘i Literature & Art
— Since 1978 —
Just The Way We Like It In the kitchen heat, I think of you as I peel the bacon strips cool from the fridge. I carefully place each of them in the pan. I love you more than bacon. Really, I do. There’s always bacon at our house. Together, we’ve eaten more than our share…
How We Like It I love you more than bacon. Really, I do. In the kitchen heat, I think of you as I carefully place In the pan, bacon strips Cool from the fridge. You’re still curled up in bed. Dreaming, I think, of mangos Its sticky juices running between your fingers As you…
Okay, here’s the last prompt for August. Some prompts that come to mind are patterns, routines, chickens, therapy, Freud, couches, cartoons, the “funny papers,” drawing, and taking notes. How about you? Any ideas? Go ahead a write a piece and then post it below as a contest entry. The August winner(s) will be announced the…
It was the stinking pig I raged against for killing my Grandpa young, thickening his arteries, spawning the fatal embolic stroke. Grandpa loved his rendered lard, kept near the electric stove top in a repurposed Best Foods mayonnaise jar for easy storing. This he poured warm over white short-grain rice ’til they glistened…
I. My poor dance of memory means I can’t quite reconfigure you, a fool’s waltz round to think today, remembering how we might have been only some gasped reaction, like gulping the coldest water imaginable, for a moment how we stole each other’s breaths, but then warmed up, aghast, I fear, at what was mistaken…
Aloha #WriterMonday to all of you. I hope you had a safe and productive weekend. This is Bamboo Shoots Monthly Writing Contest #WritingPrompt day, the third prompt of the month. You may recognize the gentleman in this photo, Weilin Wang, who famously stood in front of advancing Chinese military tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests….
Okay, writers, here’s the second prompt for this month’s writing contest. Use it to inspire a piece of writing, any length, any style, and then post it as a contest entry below. This one is called Kalapana. And you can always use the first one for this month, I love you more than bacon:…
Okay, monthly contest writers, aloha #WriterMonday to you all. Here’s the first Monday #WritingPrompt for August. Use it to inspire a piece of writing of any style, any length, and then post that piece as a contest entry below. You never know. Your piece may be selected for publication in a future issue of Bamboo…