Poetry Collections:
A Thread of Scarlet (2024)
Songs of the Islands (2005)
Dawn Will Break (2002)
Songs of Consonants (2001)
Songs of Youth (1998)
Parting Strengthens Poetry (1996)
Uncollected poems
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6. Kipuka Pua’ulu
From Songs of the Islands (2005) Heard, unseen, above the bending fern, breezes move atop ’o’hia trees.Branches on the mountain slopehold nectar, mist, and birds.Deeper in the air is calm,caught in dreams of… Read more…
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7. Beyond the Veil
From Songs of the Islands (2005) A silhouette of sinking sunpronouncing all its labor doneslips down to join the earth as one — the ocean still remains.The salt grass dancing in the breeze,the… Read more…
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1. Blinded
From Dawn Will Break (2002) I know the way. I have, before, been there.Seen it a thousand times.Walked there, drove there, rode there, ran there, sat there, been there.I know the Way, butwhere… Read more…
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2. I Am that I Am
From Dawn Will Break (2002) I am a Panamanian,harvesting bananas in the hot and steamy summerof the brightly-sweltered sun.I am a soldier, fighting,brutal, fierce, a terror in the night,aged down with all my… Read more…