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Wait

Sometimes it rains hard and there’s nothing you can do so you sit and wait.

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Hawaiian Hurricane Haiku: Tropical Storm Postscript

1.) And then came the rain following the hurricane Tropical Storm Lane   2.) Everything is wet and the rain is still falling. Gardens are grateful.   3.) We’re all still alive us and all the animals horse and ducks … Continue reading

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I Hope You’re Crying Too

It’s been raining all day today and it rained yesterday too and just when I was feeling blue about all the grey skies I realized that today was August 9th and then I opened up my eyes and I cried … Continue reading

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Without Ever Thinking Twice

After the rain stopped I sat there on that lava rock with the warm trade winds drying my wet clothes and the ocean making music waves crashing on the rocks around me the push and pull, that timeless dance taking … Continue reading

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The Weeds

Sometimes it rains and the vegetables grow but so do the weeds and the weeds grow faster and stronger and sometimes the weeds suffocate the vegetables before we can intervene and sometimes they consume the entire garden but the rains … Continue reading

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Wings On The Vulture

Let us wake now from this sleep before there’s nothing left for the meek to inherit the missionaries stole it and their kids won’t share it as they still fly old glory over stolen land broken with bibles and pineapples, canned and shipped to Rome from … Continue reading

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And She Cried

There is an old woman whose husband had died and she cried and she cried and she cried and she cried   and then this old woman’s children all died and she cried and she cried and she cried and … Continue reading

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Gaza

I was losing myself in the sky reflecting in a puddle, a mirror left by an afternoon shower on the floor of our open-air barn. Mesmerized by the tree branches swaying in the breeze and by the clouds arriving and … Continue reading

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Spring

The script was written long ago with an apple bitten so we’d never know that the truth was in us all along but they stole our solstice and silenced our song and said the devil made us dance and if … Continue reading

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Kalaupapa

how many feet have walked along this trail for years and years and years before hiking shoes and boots how many mules have stepped on these stones carying the weight of history how many tears have fallen remains a mystery but … Continue reading

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