I am a missing part of something that’s already lost. I missed myself the most. As young as twenty but felt like thirty. I hope, I am happy at thirty …   I lost father a few weeks back, My voice still cracks….

4am Poem 2 Some Graces About ten years ago a teenaged young man smashed into a pole on Honoa’piilani Hwy driving home late from work. He left his body immediately. There are some graces. White gloved I drove him to his home , Lahainatown down…

-after Diana Khoi Nguyen   “…hands separating peach halves from a core” the crack that it makes white flesh peaches crack and snap they crunch in my mouth textures like soft sand and mild sweetness launches me back to marching fields summer heat when my…

  the shadow of the ladder (a parable of women’s lives) seems fitting somehow for a woman to be looking at the shadow of a ladder to an unseen ceiling in a space where everything around her is incomplete contrived or just out of reach……

Naïve, raw, my grief an uncut diamond Waiting to be set in a pendant and hung Around my neck. I had assigned two fathers To the flames, I thought that I was strong. Still learning ten years later, still trying To let go. I was…

The world is smaller than l remember Darker Colder My body contains the remnants of cigarettes, Cheap wine Sex I fold myself into flower, origami style Scars become memories Memories drifting  like storm clouds The rain washing the dirt away    

The blank space invites. I imagine what could be. Artist, creator.

Like an ant scurrying, gathering dinner for the nest Like a bee flying, finding sweet nectar for the hive Like a bird soaring, enjoying views Liking life.

SOMEONE LOVES ME TOO I wished for someone who would love me I wished for someone who would circle my feet I wished for someone who would wait eagerly for me I wished for someone who would just accept me for my imperfections. God made…

I went to the gallery for a change of pace Tired of mundanity I came to this vestigial place Left over from a time where all who came Came verklempt And all the same they changed within Thanks to a small notion Perhaps the issue…