We grasped those pink plumes tethered by bamboo. Our fans opened wide with a flick, obscured everything we wanted. A gaggle of delicate-footed girls huddled together, transformed into a trembling lotus, Continue reading
Blindfolded, without sky- or land- mark, no lightning-struck fir flagging the pine break, no particular ark of known stars—Little Dipper, Southern Cross—the body, pressing on, no matter how piano-wired, how absent Continue reading
With no metaphors for what turns and turns, for what meets the ground from clouds, I collapse in the room my barn-blue, silicone funnel. My students, as unruffled as the spectators Continue reading
Honolulu, HI (March 22, 2020) It seems not even a pandemic can cancel paradise. I fill my car at the gas station, then pick up my daughter’s Montelukast pills and asthma Continue reading
My heart was attached to the firewood. It was wrapped first in kindle, thread, rosemary, then burned as tinder. I asked myself how I had lived racing toward an end that Continue reading
