Kaloa Pau Cold morning Fisherman shuffles to the calendar on the wall, Squinting at the tiny print. Oh, Kaloa Pau moon, fishing supposed to be “excellent”. We’ll see about dat……
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
Hawai’i sonnet 40
You whisper dawn again and I think damn, you’re going to go. You rise and I can’t catch my breath for you speaking your soft night’s end song. Some is…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
Wishing Well, Part 6
Part 1 When you wish for something hard enough, you just might get it. Then comes the part about how hard you thought about what happens next, as in being…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
ON HE RODE — Chapter Nine
“Get his/her act together,” a statement containing the seeds of its own refutation and rebuttal. Or seed: the word “act”. What seems to give the statement credibility is the assumed…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Year of the Dog
Bamboo Ridge Year of the Dog writing contest rules for January : )
Happy New Year! Remember that this month’s entry will be second to last. Next month we are done with phase one. Feel free to add on to any one of…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
American Poem
I heard a car pull up and stop behind me. Looking back, I watched a woman emerge slowly from the driver’s side door. Coming around to the curbside, she slid…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
ON HE RODE — Chapter Eight
To help me choose my route, I’ve got a magazine-sized Rand-McNally road atlas as my ready reference, though so far I’ve used it more to tell me where I’ve been…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Year of the Dog
Bamboo Ridge Year of the Dog writing contest rules for December : )
Writers, feel free to add on to any one of the following choices. There are three choices. Don’t forget to include the preceding parts of the story when you post…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
Title for this chapter: Settling In
So I woke up not dead, and proceeded from the church back to Dunkin’ Donuts, the place that would become a permanent reference point for me, a little bit like…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
On He Rode — Chapter Seven
“So what’re you guys up to?” I ask the two tee-shirt-and-jeans teen-agers who wander into my camp and stop twenty yards in front of me with my hood up. The…