Disdainful looks from you are welcome guests Like sunshined rays once storminess has passed So it were criminal to praise you less In deigning upon me your glares to cast…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Year of the Rooster
Year of the Rooster Contest for June
Okay, it’s time to play. We are going up again this month, and still looking for hearty souls who want to shoot the moon : ) So, you can write…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
Mother’s Day Fine Dining
Every Muddah’s Day, my fahdah, tell, we going out fo dinner. Only ting, he only like eat Chinese food. Instead of going one regular chop suey house, he tell we…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
I wonder often why Shakespeare did write
I wonder often why Shakespeare did write Those hundred fifty-four love sonnets dear For whom he meant each one inspired delight For whom each one was meant remains unclear Enamoring…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
A Tribute to Mothers
Carter spoke as if he were witnessing yesterday’s event from a distance; another critical phone call received from his fifth grade teacher, his father’s failed containment of anger, the baseball…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
In a folded envelope
In the folded envelope that bounced, along the stones of the WWII Memorial at National Mall, stopped by toe of my last pair of USMC issued boots. Written in the…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
Dirt Sellers
Last night I Googled “Buy My Happy Horse Shit,” something realtor Willis J. Everist once said, giving the straight scoop on what makes the world go around. Google offered Hunter…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Year of the Rooster
Year of the Rooster Contest for May : )
Okay, it’s time for the May Contest edition. I’m in England right now, so the cues might also have something to do with England : ) And yes, we’re going…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
Firsts
He slowly shuffles into the office, his left leg a step behind him. At the previous visit, wrinkled hands rolled up the leg of his pants to show me the…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
Honolulu Marathon 2007
A first marathon Add big-feet, small-shoes conceit– Yield bunion baptism.