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Category Archives: Short Stories and Poems
At the Lo’i
At Waipi’o While we pulled taro and Toted it by the lau to The ‘auwai where we Stripped roots, shucked mud, Severed corms for today’s cookpot from Huli for next year’s While we cradled huli like newborn babes and — … Continue reading →
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Next Act
Sacred rites have Hidden players Anticlimax, unbidden, Steals the scene The trap door opens The protagonists fall through Their lines forgotten They laugh and scream in the dark Above, an audience of corpses Applauds with gusto The curtain closes Everyone … Continue reading →
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When He’s Gone
She doesn’t know how to explain it, what comes over her when he’s gone. It’s as if, when he’s around, all the energy she has goes his way, feeds him and the life they have in common. It’s not that … Continue reading →
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Lustrum
Tonight along the avenue, street lights and store lights, automobile headlights and taillights, flicker across puddles born of days of rain. I find myself watching women. Gumbo of dirt and stones and leaves spills onto pavement that shuttles it this … Continue reading →
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Chores and Pleasures
This morning as We three cut wood I thought about pioneering days when Life was chores. Survival May have depended on a morning’s work like ours Lovemaking, even, may have been a chore This afternoon as You play backgammon with … Continue reading →
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Hunting and Gathering in the 1980s
I Nothing has grown here for a thousand years There are no nutrients here Things live by a different energy Magic once crested these breezes but That magic is gone II Today’s totems are pressed from the Tiny skeletons of … Continue reading →
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Dorothy’s Day After
Dorothy knows this morning she had too much luau last night. She swats the radio alarm dead — she’s beyond snooze — and thinks about calling in sick to work. This makes her feel marginally guilty. She gets up to … Continue reading →
Dorothy’s Day
Sound filters through the depths of her sleep as Dorothy swims to the surface. She wakes to luau music, or some ad exec’s idea of it, as the radio alarm signals the start of another new day: “…arrive from the … Continue reading →