Michael HawesMar 7, 202212 min readCoffee Cup CantosTormento de Mil CosquilleosA 1970’s Guatemalan jungle honeymoon. Bad water, Mayan ruins, good friends, lost seats, and skinny-dipping with predatory fish.
Michael HawesMar 6, 20229 min readTravel StoriesDos Pajaros Tristes en TarragonaA Spanish tale of two sad birds in Tarragona. An epic campsite, a mystery man, lime soap, a wedding band and Angel's Tits.
Michael HawesMar 5, 20224 min readPostal StoriesMentawai HeelsLove, passion, footwear and dental modifications merge for a Vancouver letter-carrier.
Michael HawesFeb 25, 20225 min readPostal StoriesO Milagre do PássaroThe tragedy of his wife's condition had been perfectly met by the care and tenderness of her husband. It was a daily lesson for me.
Michael HawesFeb 15, 202211 min readCoffee Cup CantosShoeshineYou can give a boy a shoeshine kit but you can't change the fact he's a hunter/gatherer.
Michael HawesFeb 5, 20228 min readPipe-fitter StoriesTake It On The ChinIn which I am saved from serious injury by an ancestral Calabrian grape-vine.
Michael HawesJan 30, 202210 min readPostal StoriesBig Boys Don’t CryIn which, at long last, I allow myself to cry.
Michael HawesJan 14, 20228 min readPostal StoriesRecognizing Your OwnOn finding your family, pondering hidden siblings and a tribute to my friend, Ms. Judy Joe.
Michael HawesJan 3, 20225 min readTravel StoriesLa Fanciulla Che Ha Dormito Con Me On a beach in Algeciras, a sister-soul warms the foggy night, saves her dignity and gifts me with the scent of her hair.
Michael HawesDec 19, 202111 min readEssaysOn Women and HorsesIf we could actually understand the bond between a man and a woman, we would have destroyed that bond which is rooted in the Mystery.
Michael HawesDec 7, 202124 min readPoetryTruck StopWord sketches written on paper place mats at a truck stop. -with a humble Irish tip of the hat to J. P. Donleavy
Michael HawesDec 5, 20218 min readPipe-fitter StoriesThermocoupleAbout my first cat, Thermocouple. In time, I learned that cats are not at all like wolves and in fact, they resent the comparison.
Michael HawesNov 30, 20211 min readPoetryWindows of the SoulTwo poems that are looking into our eyes.
Michael HawesNov 25, 20211 min readPoetry為美珊寫的兩首詩Two poems I wrote to honour my second wife, Mei San, the mother of my first-born son.
Michael HawesNov 20, 20215 min readCorrespondence馬薇薇A letter to the positive aspects of femininity, which at the time of writing were embodied in a young woman twenty years my junior.
Michael HawesOct 25, 20211 min readPoetryLone Wolf HowlsAn autist looks at love. Poem by Michael Hawes.
