Such soul sorrow
Emptiness. Depression.
Try to carry on
Be the best dad I can

Keep them safe
Un pequito happiness
Moving forward
Rockin' band

               And ...

Can't get no traction
Can't find no relief
I keep spinning my wheels
Round and round I go

I miss my mother still
24 years of grief
Silent in the night
Holy Toledo snow

                     Yo!

I like the bullet trains
Speeding from Tokyo
I like Seattle rain
All that Reno snow

I sleep late and long
Archetypal dreams
In my solitude
I play for my team

            Forward!

Dailiness. Ordinary.
Living day by day
Leaving the Chinese restaurant
Yes, I say xie xie

Please protections for my sons
Silent is the Way
All Life's dangers
My sons callooh! callay!

Ireland was misty grey
Seattle was rain too
Sledding in Reno snow
Y Carolina blue

I've been ramblin' round
Don't know what I'm gonna do
Maybe fly to Japan
See you at Sophia U.

                     Be true.

A little sweet tea
         Waiting
         my son!

I seek, Ms. Susan Meek
I seek and then I search
Acquainted with Absurd
I do not go to church

Seattle in the rain
Vienna in the snow
Japanese bullet train
Yoko yo yo yo yo!

                  So...

No one important
Often alone
Taxi service
Rolling Stone

San Francisco Zen
The Great Unknown
Little poems
Black cell phone

      Culianu, Ioan

Travelin' man
Vienna in snow
Siena in sun
Yoko yo yo

My children travel
Budapest
Prague, Berlin
Trains? Yes.

           Qualyxian Quest.

I'm not a saint
Proclivities
Travelin' man
Pretty please

Seattle. Seattle.
Grey and green
Chicago snow
Things Not Seen

       Exoplanets!

She really is that wonderful
      Pretty, caring, kind
      Gentle on my mind

Sunlit Italy
Honeymoon in Rome
Pasta primavera
Latin in my home

Sunlit Italy
Jackie Graziano
Fr. Bill LaFratta
My grandmother's piano

                 Madonna!

Boredinary Maryland
Grey day blues
I'm at school again
Gotta give him a ride

Time tick tocks
Soon I'm gonna lose
Keep him safe protected
All aglow inside

                    hope!

California Coast
Tidal pools in Monterrey
San Francisco Zen Center
Silent is the Way

Red Pine's Road to Heaven
Twenty first of May
Sweetly Sacramento
Memories of Taipei

                     Ole!

California Coast
San Francisco Zen
She I love the most
But I don't know when

1492
3710
Susan Meek not Sue
Destiny. Muy Bien!

My son took a math test
Hope he was prepared
Bruce Springsteen on my stereo
He is one who dared

Scrambled eggs and bacon
Orange juice to wash it down
When I was in Dublin
Took the bus through town

Wendy was a lot of fun
All things pass away
Oh! my darling sons
Oh! callooh! callay!

            my my hey hey

A little breakfast this morning
Got my son to school
Cordelia is truly noble
Harold Bloom was a fool

The rain is cold and falling
Grey sky, grey sidewalk too
35 years ago
Me at JMU

All the King's Men
Jack Burden, Jackie Bird
Dante, Milton, Plato
Albert Camus' Absurd

                      Words!

Malcolm X at 100
Chicago in the night
Charlotte in the sun
Gatsby's green light

Get my son from school
Time to eat and talk
NBA tonight
Run and jump and walk

Boredinary Maryland
Graduation soon
At our table Thai dumplings
In the kitchen Flaming June

                         Open!

Bill Moyers: So which is it, Mr. Rodriguez - more Mexican or more American?

Richard Rodriguez: Actually, I'm Chinese.

I have the urge to write the poems
Play a bit with words
I said I miss you in the night
But I don't think she heard
Albert Camus at JMU
19 and Absurd
Divinity School in Chicago
Yo soy un theonerd.

Memories of Thailand
Motorcycle taxis in the rain
I've been to Pattaya
Never been to Spain

The Buddha sits in silence
Suffering is caused by desire
At my grandparents' house
I stare into the fire

              Holy Toledo!

The ordinary
    dailiness
        sleep

...........Wendy.......
      Purple Rain
              80s!

Said Fr. David Tracy
May his memory be a blessing.

Patience in the desert
Only a little water
I have 3 sons
She has 2 daughters

Ordinary daily life
Boring most of the time
Grateful for the phone calls
Cranberry juice with lime

                         I'm ...

In one of his earlier incarnations
Pythagoras was a bird.
And in another he was a fish.

He said.

In Florida, the Land of Flowers
The girls do love the beach
I've been there after hours
Before being taught to teach
Dr. Thomas he once told me
In '88 (or maybe '87)
Saint Augusteen is in Florida
But Saint Augustine - he's in heaven!

Dr. Thomas, my teacher
      Southern charm
               Mozart!

Another day
Quietness
Exoplanets
Italian food

Another day
Gentle sleep
Keep them safe
Interlude

      Water!

Crossing the Baltic
   Young sons sung
         Trappist 1!

In gratitude for my dad
         One more day
                Xie Xie

55 and falling
Soon 56
Come Sail Away
Listening to Styx

Please keep him close
Destiny not Fate
El futuro, El futuro
8088

          Dragon Gate!

Another anxiety dream
I can't teach my class
Meditation hall
Lovely wood and glass

Please, Life, protect my son
Grant him stable peace
A friend in South Korea
A table at the feast

                   Slowly

lifelong low level depression
                    sleep
                     sigh

Our immortality is for others
Not our clinging selves
When we die we become mothers
May we give birth to speaking shelves
Of books we've never written
Tales we never told
Young again in the young
As our former selves grow old
Presently I am a father
And I love my three young sons
But I muse on my maternity
And greet thee - my darling ones!

O Brother, Where Art Thou?
             Charlottesville
                       Rieko

no one important
evening alone
misty Seattle
Rolling Stone

           Amen.

Live my dailiness
Somethin' in the Night
Adam Raised a Cain
Gatsby's green light

Camus at JMU
19 and Absurd
Like every seeking poet
Looking for the word

             Astrobiology!

Gratitude on the go down
Courage in the night
Viva Tel Aviv!
Sor Juana's mystic flight

Exoplanet sky
Mother Mary might
Seattle ferry boat
Just a little light

                           Ole!

I'm not a saint
I sometimes wish I was, but I'm not
3 hopes for Ry
3 hopes for Scott

Very far from home
Temples at Angkor Wat
Bangkok in the rain
Thanks a lot.

Memories. Memories.
Night in old Taipei
Fo Guang Shan
Silent is the Way
Won ton soup
Gracias xie xie
Taxi slowly home
Yea, verily. Yea.

BBQ today
And a little sweet tea
In Seattle misty rain
In Dublin meant to be

My son wears a Batman shirt
One Dark Knight
A little true protection
A little mystic flight

                    Alright!

Memories in my mind
Seattle, Vienna, Tel Aviv
Satellite Beach, Florida
Hutch, Mike, and Steve

             Lost. Retrieve.

Dailiness. Not The Answer.
Slowly day by day
Memories of Seattle.
Silence. No words to pray.

In my solitude
Gracias xie xie
The injection hurt this time
No words to say.

I am a taxi service
Ok by me
Keep him moving ahead
Forward. Xie xie ni.

                       We.