Soul sorrow
In my solitude
         Sigh

Portland's Japanese garden
              Sunny day
                 Arigato

I traveled around a bit
Europe, Asia, Israel
Time tick tocks
I grow old

Fun for my sons
A home
Love
Go bold.

So many poets are mentally ill
Emotion overflows
Individual consciousness - adios
But our soul or spirit grows

In gratitude for my father
In gratitude for my sons
Quiet. Quiet. Quietly.
Surely She's the One!

The years keep rolling by
I age, turn the page
My boys are growing up
Keep them right on track

Nixon
Destroyed Cambodia
George W.
Destroyed Iraq

I liked the teaching
But I was kinda boring
Still
Tried to do my best

Fantasies
Susan Meek
Carolina Inn
Her hair upon my chest

                  Undressed.

Thai food today
My son, he does drive
Highway to Hell
Feeling 55

Grateful for small victories
Suffering, but still alive
Keep him moving ahead
Quietly to thrive

                      Amen.

Desperately Seeking Susan
Desperately alone
56 and falling
I threw a Rolling Stone

In my solitude
And the Great Unknown
Quiet desperation
E.T. phone Rome

Frederick, Maryland
Ordinary days
Eating, driving, sleeping
Get me through the Maze

Dinner with my sons
Korean barbecue
One more year to go
Maybe GMU


           get him through...

Solamente yo
      Falling
          So ...

Troubled soul
       Falling
           Yo

Just an amateur poet
Little poems in the night
One for Mexico City
Sor Juana's mystic flight

I have been to Santa Fe
Colorado too
The California Coast
Rothko green and blue

                Seattle U.

The continuity of life
The inevitability of death
Sitting, just sitting
Quietly my breath

Korean grocery store
BBQ and tea
Afternoon nap
Living quietly

                          Si

I feel death bearing down
The transience of my life
Aging, slowly aging
The pain that living brings

My sons play video games
Keep them moving forward
My darling, darling boys
Seattle surely sings

                      Viva!

Talk with all 3 sons
Gracias si xie xie
My sons, My sons
Callooh! Callay!

Live to talk another day.

Nothing satisfies
Not food or drink or ***
I wonder what she thinks of me now
My long lost ex

Sleep, grateful sleep
Speeding bullet train
European history
Purple Rain! Purple Rain!

I find living difficult
Am I near the end?
Slept most of the day
Politics portends

Call my youngest son
I love him, yes I do
Kamakura Buddha
Train to Sophia U.

               3772

I miss Seattle, I do
I like those ferry boats
A little misty rain
Singing at Kells at night

Life is suffering
Help me suffer through
Ferry boat blue
Gatsby's green light

                 Seattle U.

Encounters with Chinese hermits
A little mountain mist
In my solitude
Everlasting kiss

I was in Hong Kong once
Dim sum. Xie xie ni.
Dragons in the sky
Fantastically

                       We!

Lunch with my son
We talk basketball
BBQ chicken pizza
Therapy next week

Denver has the Nuggets
Oh! those Rocky Mountains
Nikola Jokic
Susan Meek

                   I seek.

Type 2 diabetes
Yes, I have a sweet tooth
La Florida the Land of Flowers
My long lost youth

Frederick, Maryland is ordinary
I hope I die at home
Extrasolar water
E.T. phone Rome

                     Rome!

Si xie xie.

Ongoing struggle with depression
Sometimes I don't do too well
I'd rather be in Seattle
Singing at night at Kells

Saw my sons today
We are the Witherells
Gracias xie xie
Only time will tell

                       Happy 4th!

Seattle when I was 23
Go Northwest, young man, Northwest
Rode those ferry boats
Sang at Kells, was blessed

Wonder if I'll get back
56 you know
Seattle misty rain
Seattle aglow with snow

                         Yo espero.

Cookout tomorrow
Please fearless sleep tonight
Honey lemon tea
Gatsby's green light

He went swimming today
Picked him up without a fight
Driving driving driving

                   Well, alright ...

Said Constitution Hall

Kobayashi Issa
         Rieko
       Arigato

I'm not a saint
But he said I was a gift
I hope he is right
Timor mortis conturbat me

Some good thing before I go
Something for my boys
Something Thai
Or Spanish

                            Ole!

I like the little poems
   Portland. Seattle.
             Reno.

                 Yo!

late dinner tonight
          he and I
              I try

No one important
Live and die unknown
        Rolling Stone

Plurality and Ambiguity
        Chicago snow
            Yo espero

Fo Guang Shan
  Dear Taiwan
          101

David Markson
      Melville
        Emily

        Selah

Those Seattle ferry boats!
        Grey and Green
         Midnight Blue

               Seattle U.

Asks David Markson

Silent despair
    Dailiness
       hope...

Exoplanets
Aliens!
Cosmic seas
Wait. Wait.

Galaxy Quest
Star Trek begins
Destiny
Destiny not Fate.

           8088

Take him to work
Keep him fed
Day by day
Summer slow

He's with his friends
Please safely led
Summer breeze
Yoko yo yo!

          We go.

Sweetly Swedish summer
Cathedral, garden, University
             Utterly Uppsala!

I don't feel like much of a dreamer anymore
Just trying to hang on
I liked Stockholm
Especially Gamla Stan

Drive my son to work tomorrow
Let him sleep. Keep him fed.
His future, his future
Long after I am dead

                      Slowly.

rain on my windshield
         blueblack sky
                 sigh

The silence is eternal
My poetry is not
3 hopes for Ry
7 hopes for Scott

Time tick tocks
I sleep in peace tonight
Mexico City
Sor Juana's mystic flight

                    Alright!

Ordinary, boring dailiness
My so-called life
38 years later
Still cuts like a knife

Thankful for my son
Thankful for his job
Driving driving driving
Jokic throws a lob

                    Hoopin'!

Reading about shamanism
Slowly growing older
The mall nearly empty tonight
My sight grows dim

Thankful for my son's job
I am a taxi service
No problem
The future for him.