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--- copyright KIRBY WRIGHTKIRBY WRIGHT Shopping for Halloween Costumes in Oceanside, California I stumble into Big Sam's Military surplus store On the shore Down from Camp Pendelton. Sam's sells the uniforms Of Marines, sailors, and soldiers. Holes in the fabric Are the size of mouths. The store stinks— Mentholated mothballs. "Close To You" Plays over the speakers. a clipping on the wall Has Rumsfeld Sticking out his tongue. Big Sam, a tattooed vet, says some fatigues Whisper after sunset.
Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, KIRBY WRIGHT graduated the Punahou School in Honolulu. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, where he studied under the tutelage of Frances Mayes (UNDER the TUSCAN SUN). Kirby has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and is a past recipient of the Ann Fields Poetry Prize, the Academy of American Poets Award, the Browning Society Award for Dramatic Monologue, the San Diego Book Award, and Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellowships in Poetry and The Novel. BEFORE the CITY, his first book of poetry, took First Place at the San Diego Book Awards. PUNAHOU BLUES, his coming of age novel set in Honolulu, was a Finalist at the San Diego Book Awards and received Honorable Mention at the Hawaii Book Awards. KIRBY WRIGHT was recently interviewed on Fox Morning News, Art Rocks internet radio in San Diego, and Hawaiian Kine News out of Las Vegas.
REPAIR: Concourse or confluence of people at or in a place; resort, frequent or habitual going; making one's way; to arrive; to dwell; to heal, to cure, to recover; to renew; (AND!) to fix to original condition. Oxford English Dictionary
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