Congratulations to Rbibeau, Piihonua(On faith. Really hope you provide a translation for those who do not know Hawaiian, so we can learn), Homelessinhonolulu, Darrel, and Categable. You’re all winners this…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
Chinese New Year
—Uncle, when is Chinese New Year? “Ah-so, little Gas-hoppah. Lemme consult my calendah…” —You gotta consult da lunar calendar? “All kine calendar gotta consult. Chinese New Year sometimes January, sometimes…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
A Valentine
A Valentine Upon the broad leaf Of the autograph tree Volumes, whole libraries on love
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
He Hoanoho No – 100 words
ʻO keia hoanoho, he manu lele loa, he manu huakaʻi loa, a he manu loli lole. Halihali wale ʻia kona kino liʻiliʻi e na makani nui e pa mai ana…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
Falling in Love
Falling in Love Falling in love is when you find someone who loves sushi as you do and you could spend hours talking about sushi and translate those moments into…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
The Language of Snowbirds
How your stocks doing? Where we going for dinner? What the doctor say?
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
Just Desserts
Vanilla: Jim doesn’t have a cell phone. Shuns the dark side. Jim’s privacy, for nowadays, is greater than most. Strawberry: Dick Cheney called Edward Snowden a traitor. Snowden considered that…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
8:07 a.m., Saturday, January 13, 2018 Dogs somewhere up the valley — three of them, if I hear correctly. One hammers its bark, bark, bark drumbeat; another moans its sotto…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
Love
The fierce love I feel for you is like rolling thunder building a rain and dust storm on a hot summer evening.
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
Drum Party
I can’t remember wakening to the sound of birds before, ever. It was a minor surprise that the already warm tropical sun hadn’t done it earlier, or, as I slowly…