Winter Winter comes when a woman goes cold on you when the butterfly leaves your hand and when the hummingbird no longer stands still and when nothing rests on a…

Once a month, get air raid drill. When you hear da siren, you gotta hide under your desk and put your head on da ground j’like praying at da temple….

Mom kept many gallons of water under the staircase. I watched her eyedropper eight careful drops of bleach into each bottle, wondering how the water would taste. She said if…

Dawn breaks as I near the trail’s end, My dogs, driven by impatience, eager for their treats, Drop their heads and slow. Up ahead, an old woman stands like an…

Or is that plural: The walls have ears? Or both? Or neither? (How could a wall have ears?) Listen, I’ll tell you how. A recent Star-Advertiser story said our President…

Yes, it’s that holiday-ze time of year when all hell breaks loose on O’ahu roads. Add rain, and you’ve got a perpetual display of how bad drivers can be on…

Congratulations to Jim Harstad, DoreenB, Homelessinhonolulu, and Darrel. You are the November winners for The Year of the Rooster Writing Contest. You have each won 10 Bamboo Bucks to spend…

Aunty Jenny used to roast da turkey fo Tanksgiving every year. Uncle Jim bring da turkey straight from da oven, da big brown bird still steaming. Errybody look at um,…

Once upon another century, Ali’i women bathed In Little pond’s cool clear waters, Their broad coconut-oiled shoulders Glistening like smooth lacquered koa Under a tropical sun. Her lens mirrored the…

Creating light, love’s knowing fashion makes Some man, some woman reach in time in place To touch, their wordless press to hold each one. To find in other’s capture, purify,…