A summer of extremes cancels everythingYour return to the American southYour disillusionment with microbreweries Your unattended garden Late afternoon, we observe women, skirts tied in knots to their waistssquatting, digging for mussels and seashells& I say these beaches are mere flat waters that consumequiet anger crushing against the empty horizon A dog barking up the crowded beachhas …
Corona, Coronavirus, Chinese virus, Wuhan virus. COVID-19, a pandemic that has shook many nations. Who would have ever saw this coming? Who would have foreseen a stay-at-home order? Who would have ever expected to be required to stay at home all day and not be able to go out? With the stay-at-home order comes cabin …
I want to be busy,not like my grandfatherwho died in his patriotic shoesI want to sell discount furniturein a rough neighborhood in Raleigh& when the lonely sun goes to sleep, return to my shack where I will readread & look at geraniums until I fall asleep Oh, come back long walks! Oh, come back intimate talks! …
My Lola loves meShe left the Philippines Her three kids Her homeHer life To cut sugar cane on the plantations of HawaiiTo provide for her familyAfter her husband passed away. My memories of my Lola during my childhood are matamisAs matamis as the calamansi juice she hand-squeezedFrom my neighbor’s treeI have an older brotherWhom I …
