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I've scribbled the alphabet for meaning since I can remember.

dearest

10/13/2010

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dearest


Thank you -
Mahalo-
for pulling the race through my
ears into my toes,
sucked and spat out,
just like the moving blade
reduces
the grass to
its necessary bits.

Thank you for
pulling this girl to
your breast and nursing
her whole,
resetting her compass,
turning her home.

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The Aloha Difference: Hō‘ihi

10/1/2010

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Brain-storming. Brains storming.  A component of writing that is essential, whether acknowledged, or not. For some it happens easily, for some a struggle.  Huddled over their work, in a fluorescently lit, tan cinder-block room, the none-too convinced class of community-college writers awaited their next wrestling match.

            I had been teaching writing, in one form or another, for a decade. I was still adjusting to the fact that I had been doing anything for a decade, professionally, but that’s another story. On the Mainland, as the contiguous United States are called in Hawai’i, I had wrangled minds into the finer arts of language and writing. The concepts were the same; now, however, my playing field contained coconut trees and luscious greenery.



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