Hawai‘i Literature & Art
— Since 1978 —
(100 first) Sharing the world her laboring tongue the modern poet knows what she is capable of when others insult her usage of words reproach her senseless paragraphs impossible to…
Boy and Uncle: China virus –Boy, da news say dey attacking people in Chinatown. Telling dem “Go home! Go back to where you came from!” –Dey tink dey went bring…
(100 first) In China, one Beijing hotel and one Starbucks have decaf coffee. You can find tea. All kinds of tea. I don’t want tea. In Korea, Starbucks has decaf,…
Okay, Happy Year of the Ox, I hope your burdens are few, your pencils are sharpened, your pens are ink-filled, and your keyboards and mouses are lint free for the…
Write one piece twice, twenty-five words in one, a hundred in the other. Or a hundred first, then twenty-five. I chose the latter. Good fun.
If your the art of poetry mentor asks you to write the same piece about writing twice, using twenty-five words in one version and an even hundred in the second,…
Meet Up At Kalapawai Cafe I waved at the young Filipina waitress, I need ketchup for my fries when you can come. She came, gave me kindness with ketchup…
Take It Off Too tight, Buckaroo, All da sides squeezing me so hard I no can breathe, When da seams bust loose 10,000 words going flood da ridge.
“You mustn’t shed tears for one such as I” But I have not raced to the edge Of my thoughts nor broken the limits Of my pain in order…
Was it three years ago or four when I thumbed my way across the country’s biggest state, the beginning of an adventure that has taken me up and down the…