by Bela Johnson | Jul 18, 2026 | Uncategorized
Drunk on the moon, the sky, the ground.Thank God this is my only addiction. Sitting on the ground in the dark earth, hacking away at an impossible forest of ti roots,roots that had once anchored the plants in profusion. These were started back in plantation days,when...
by Bela Johnson | Jul 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
We meet on the trail, now and again. Both swimmers as well as walkers,though the ocean does not call me,has not now for years. The coral is bleached white.Water temperature uncomfortably hot. He speaks of a time when he swamout by that point.I have swum there as...
by Bela Johnson | Jul 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
The gift completes itself in the giving. I’m sitting here on the wall tracking them,observing, watching them cavortand circle out in the turquoise blue waters. I radiate all the love in my heart,all my appreciation. They are magnificent.They always leave me...
by Bela Johnson | Jul 11, 2026 | Uncategorized
Yesterday late afternoon we were coming home through the harbor, up the ocean road to Kohala. There’s a handful of metal commercial buildings right after that turn. It was there that something caught my eye—a flock of geese, flying in V formation toward the mountain....
by Bela Johnson | Jul 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
Be still long enoughand you will feel what cannot be diagrammed —this grass,this park,this day hazed over the ocean,not clearly in view. Focus turns inward. Sitting beneath the spreading canopyof the monkeypod,its wide arms holding shadethe way land holds memory. What...
