Harvest Red dirt and pineapple fields stain my memories. Alongside rows of pineapple, I sat on dusty red roads and ate from my kau-kau tin with the old lady gang….
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- February 2021 Contest
Almost The Same
Almost The Same He thought about when he dug graves to earn money. They stacked sixty bodies in the shed that winter the ground froze hard. Flashforward to a half-century…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- February 2021 Contest
Indelible
Indelible Allegra once told me You carry sadness in your eyes, She was sure there were stories To tell in the way women can That meander to love and…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- February 2021 Contest
The Ox: the winner is hardworking and methodical
The Rat is gone, the Ox feels lucky. It is said that wearing metal and the lucky colors, yellow and green, will bring prosperity. I wear my gold and jade…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- February 2021 Contest
Cool Kids
My aunty ask if we like go cruising. We like go. All us kids. She make the music real loud. Her boyfriend jus wen hook up sounds. Cigarettes…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- February 2021 Contest
Waimea-Kohala Airport
I’m four years old, surrounded by my father’s family for the first time. Their sun-leathered skin confined by starched cotton clothes, brown eyes jumping all over me, land hard on…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- February 2021 Contest
Tourist
One summer I towed a Citroen 2CV From Hamburg to Copenhagen Using two silk neckties as rope Connecting it To the Dutch bicycle I rode. It was faster And more…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- February 2021 Contest
The Shack
Nursing my beer at the Shack in Mililani, watching Quiet screens with lost men chasing balls As lost as the men sipping beer in the half-light Unsuccessfully trying to bury…
Okay, Happy Valentine’s Day in advance. I love you all. This month how about 50 words max. Sounds good to me. Here are some prompts you can use or not;…