Okay, so when you go up, Face the curtain on the left You know when you walk in? So the holes face the audience So the sound project To the…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- January 2021 Contest
New Year
New Year I am not Japanese most of the year. I throw my head back and laugh loud from my belly. I wear kalakoa clothes. But come the New Year,…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- January 2021 Contest
All I Want
All I Want The general contractor tells me to get a farmer’s sink if I can afford it. I imagine the farmer’s wife deep in the sink, elbows in the…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- January 2021 Contest
Found
Found Ma wen looz my bruddah at Sears Nah—mo like she wen foget wea he stay, Afta all, she get tree udda kidz fo corral eenside da cah. …
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- January 2021 Contest
75 Words Sans Title
Fading upside-down at the bottom-back of the last yellow page of the steno pad I grab on my way to the couch to write my version of the 75 words…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- January 2021 Contest
New Year’s Resolutions
I borrowed my wife’s lipstick wrote them in the corner of the mirror that was last January the words kind of smudged my 2020 resolutions forgot about them in February…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- January 2021 Contest
Polar Other
Beyond the spectral depths of Pele’s throat lies a sensory deprived world where summer winters and days dim long into the night, where winds sculpt ice into waves and absolute…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- January 2021 Contest
Becoming American
Sixth grade, our Americanization was through the Standard School Broadcast sent to each classroom via a wired speaker. Listening to the speaker on the wall meant we didn’t have to…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- January 2021 Contest
Everything I gave you
I gave you everything I want it back all of it right now even all these years later unless you don’t have it anymore all tossed long ago me baggage…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Year of the Rat -- January 2021 Contest
First Year a da Rat Writing Contest Prompt for January 2021
Okay. Here’s to a healthier and one hell of a happier 2021. Let’s write. Good therapy. This month the word count is exactly 75 words. Not 74, not 76, or…