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.

..............Reno sky............
Black smoke billowing
          Aye! Aye! Aye!

Sage Ridge School
King Lear's Fool
          Reno!

big blue sky
   black smoke
         driving

Reno snow
  my sons
        Yo!

Ordinary life
Eating, sleeping, drinking
Laying alone in bed
Thinking thinking thinking

Protection for my boys
Protection for their friends
Als Ick Kan
Until the bitter end

                         Amen.

Just the little poems
For the little way
Lunch with my son
Gracias xie xie

Up awake at night
Tired in the day
Encounters with Chinese Hermits
Silent is the Way

Seattle grey and green
      Ferry boat blue
                You

Growing old without a woman
Grateful for my sons
In my solitude
Un pequito fun

I read of Mexico City
I ride the Tucson Train
What dreams may come
Runnin' round my brain

                  Sunlight!

Misty rain Seattle
Carolina blue
My son at Virginia Tech
Me at JMU

56 and falling
Trying to be true
London. London Calling.
3772

          ever ancient, ever new

I like Rick Steves
European trains
I've been to Toledo, Ohio
But not Toledo, Spain

Dinner with my son tonight
Give him a good night's sleep
He's back to work tomorrow
Promises to keep

                   forward ...

Seattle ferry boat
  grey and green
      misty rain

Dark twilight sky
      Memories
        Futility...

Difficulty relaxing
My mind not at ease
Susan Darlene Meek
Please, baby, please!

Restless, restless worry
Try to take it slow
Sleep, grateful sleep
Yoko yo yo yo yo!

I wish I wish I wish
I wish but wish in vain
56 and falling
I need a bullet train

Seattle sure is pretty
So is Purple Rain
56 and falling
No one is to blame

all this driving
  monotonous
     tiresome

Missing Seattle
Ferry boat greenblue
         Y Tu.

Me: I went to high school in Florida.

Kenny the Musician:  Everyone says Tampa, Miami, the Keys.  The Space Coast is the best part of Florida.

Me: I agree with you. You should see the girls there. Whoa!

Just a few words
The silences are deeper
Susan Darlene Meek
Yes, I'd like to keep her

Just a fantasy
Will not come true
San Francisco Zen
Carolina blue

             Seattle U.

Never right without the girl
Therefore, never right
Book on Mexico City
Sor Juana's mystic flight

Give my best to Alex
Mother Mary might
Rothko orange and red
Gatsby's green light

                     Alright!

Searching but never finding
Give my sons a ride
A brief time in Ireland
Quaint was Malahide

I'm tired and I'm lonely
I dream of Susan Meek
Aliens among us?
Seek, baby, seek!

               Astrobiology ...

.......... Reno snow ...........
sledding with my boys
                  fun!

According to Mr. Markson

My struggle with mental illness
I have anxiety attacks
2 years away from the hospital
That's a fact, Jack

I hope I die in sleep
Kiss my sons goodbye
Extrasolar water
Exoplanet sky

              Aye! Aye! Aye!

not very well socially
kinda geeky shy
not very well socially
ain't her kinda guy

I like the misty rain
Like the mountain mist
Still remember the beach at night
The waves and our first kiss

                        bliss

...........no self..........
          shunyata
          Quinning

More in humans to admire than to despise
                            Plague
                            Rebel!

Nothing happens after we die
Nothing happens forever
Sacramento Mark
Sacramento Heather

56 and falling
Am I late along?
Slowly. Dailiness.
Sing a Springsteen song.

             Tally **!