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Hawaii Pacific Review is an online literary journal based at Hawaii Pacific University.

William Carlos Williams as Pediatrician

by Jacob M. Appel

He bled our girls’ fevers, poulticed their burns,
Stayed up with Baby Ida to the last, Continue reading

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If You Tell Us We’re All Right, I’ll Believe You

by Joanna Luloff

Claire had been out of the hospital for six weeks when she invited me up for a visit. She was eager for some company and needed a chauffeur, she joked. Continue reading

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Indian Creek Solitaire

by Kelly Sundberg

“The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break Continue reading

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For Taube, Many Decades Later, On Why I Gave Her Baby Pink Nail Polish on Her Thirteenth Birthday When She’d Asked for Cherry Red

by Sarah Einstein

We were just past the age of Bonnie Bell Lipsmackers and Love’s Baby Soft Perfume, moving on to Cover Girl tinted lip gloss and just a hint of mascara. Continue reading

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The Love Handle

By Scott Abels

A painting of twelve dogs
in a jury box
and a cat labeled defendant. Continue reading

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