Hawai‘i Literature & Art
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We are still on hold until the new BRP site comes up, but that has not stopped original BRP supporter and retired University Laboratory School English teacher guru Jim Harstad from keeping his Memoir going : ) If all matter here on Earth is made up of atoms with a nucleus surrounded by spinning satellites…
—Uncle, how come you wearing da Burger King crown? –Somebody went ask me if I had corona. I said yeah, I get one crown. —I tink dey meant da disease. –I no mo disease. I no mo da plague. No blame me. No burn down my house. I’m okay. —Burn down your house? –Long time…
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Coloma, Wisconsin 1978 There is not much left to do today. This morning we were replacing fence posts. Bob and I have pulled stumps all afternoon, he driving the tractor, I tying off the thick chain around what’s left of the dead trees. Right now I’m in the brush surrounding the house, cutting some tall…
I White-Ox toast a second glass of beaujolais across the room toward a table already lost in conversation and imbibe faster than I probably should. Outside, the sun blasts, its harsh effects alcohol-magnified impressionistically to a bright agrarian netherworld. Lethe and Nepenthe. My watch cap protects my naked pate as I fumble with the Key…
Liquidity. English teachers are not good sources of information about this term. What they (we) don’t know can’t hurt them (us), but I’d guess that if they knew much about liquidity they wouldn’t be English teachers. But here we go. Liquidity is money. When you get more, you liquidify . When you get less, you…
big, empty corners what’s lost returns in pieces a heart fills with dust
This is a message for Teter Lanning Doreen B. Homelessinhonolulu Jim Harstad Darrell Categable Normie Salvador Post more writing prompt suggestions in a message below. Mahalo 🙂
This is the same spot Uncle used to bring me as a kid, over by the black rocks on the edge of the reef. The first time he brought me here, we caught so many we sent the smaller ones back. Auntie couldn’t believe her eyes. She said we were God’s disciples. Since then, the…
Congratulations to Categable, Jim Harstad, Homelessinhonolulu, Doreen B, Teter, and Darrell. You’re all winners in this month’s writing contest. Use your 10 Bamboo Bucks prize in our online store. Just tell Joy that you’re a January winner when you check out. Please use your Bucks by March 1, 2020. Mahalo and congratulations again to all….