What Colors Do You Breathe

I inhale a rainbow. And I exhale a blue languageof nouns and verbs.My syntaxfrozen in the stratospherehigh above the observatory, … Continue reading What Colors Do You Breathe

Poetry

Big Island

Chain of Craters Road closed due to the eruption posted at entrance. … Volcanic river erupts spewing smoke and ash … Continue reading Big Island

Poetry

Tutu Pele

heats the earth beneath Kilauea discerning the Nene foraging for food between the black and gold lava flows hardened by decades … Continue reading Tutu Pele

Poetry

Traces

Plant an ohia seed crack a lava ribbon. … Sail the Pacific, greet the kohola. … Pedal with the wind, … Continue reading Traces

Poetry

The Peafowl

lands undetected on our back lanai atop the railing. Until its cry penetrates the still night with a raucous refrain. … Continue reading The Peafowl

Poetry

SLAMMED

My heart in love’s door bloodied and bruised it swelled on the other side of a reckoning exacted its price … Continue reading SLAMMED

Poetry

Speaking French

2013 Rain Bird Kolokolea award for Poetry, Windward Community College, Kaneohe, Hawaii I long to wrap my song around your … Continue reading Speaking French

Poetry

Toad Maneuvers

Night falls. The air is stagnant soaked with white gardenia, pungent stephanotis. A thin stream of water fountains into a … Continue reading Toad Maneuvers

Poetry

Aloha Spirit

It navigates past me beyond a thick yellow hibiscus hedge near a clump of papaya trees plump with golden fruit. … Continue reading Aloha Spirit

Poetry

Sweet Persephone

Like Persephone I wait for spring to burst. Can one exchange one’s clothes or clay heart Rewind to once was … Continue reading Sweet Persephone