They say Satori can be instantly
A lightning flash, City at Night
I sleep, no silence scream
Sor Juana's mystic flight

                 true blue light

Life along the Liffey
Riverruns and keeps on running

In this misty, musical city
I keep playing, praying, punning

Post-modernity arrives
I reJoyce and am not shunning

Though much is taken, much abides
Including silence, exile, and cunning

In Kyoto, the Golden Temple
     she dresses as a princess, I a samurai
       train (not driving), and us arriving
                           at arigato.

Bob Dylan on Cornel West:
Livin' out loud

Emile Zola
Accusing the Dreyfus crowd

Italian father
Probably quite proud

Coffin ready
Mystery shrouds

Please help me relax
When anxiety attacks
The sound of flowing water
Safe inside my home

In Xanadu did Kublai Khan
In Santa Fe did I
Silence of the Lambs
In the Y the Life of Pi

       relax. relax. relax.

                     try

Berkeley hills, lonely
              young, quite lost, only

Kneeling, silent meditation
                prayers, poems in recitation

Deer -  frantic running,  primal chase
                  sexuality, desperate passion race

Call home - weeping, almost singing fears
                         divine despair appears
                    the (wrenching) gift of tears

Leonard Cohen late in London
           poetry in place
             broken grace ...

                    darker.

Ok not to exist
Will I be received?
Future, the future Miss
Bangkok be retrieved

         All Hallow's Eve

....................gas sells at 2.37.................
    Encounters with Chinese hermits
                   Road to Heaven


                            silence

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!

I majored in philosophy
Religious studies minor
Carolina Inn
Nothing would be finer

I've got an atheist in me
Albert Camus at JMU
Also got a monk
Also Pondicherry Zoo

Grey day blues today
Kiss her once for me
Once Toledo, Ohio
3333

                    Si

One must go on working
And one must have patience

Both we wounded west ones
And the mystical Asians

Kurt Wagner
Professor X
   Patience

It's not the Westerns
That spin my myths
It's the scifi starship tales

They speak to me in magic
As Melville speaks of whales

Arrival and Galaxy Quest
I, Robot and Star Wars

Make me think there might be more
In this universe of yours

Solaris on the ceiling
Star Treks through the floors

Maybe multiplying universes
Maybe open doors?

fireworks in Kowloon Bay
           2009 on the way
silent Buddha - no words to say

           Spock studies Klingons
           We wander Hong Kong

                       happiness.

but there is no healthy perfection
with that we too are rotten

yet still we venture forth
hoping not to be forgotten

we do the best we can
leave the rest to our friends and God

then for 1001 nights
we listen entranced to Scheherezade

                                         Arabian Nights!

Unexpected, she said
Which I imagine is true
Memories. Memories.
My letter to you

In the kitchen Flaming June
Rothko green and blue
I became a teacher
By studying at GMU

                   Adieux.

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!

so sad this life
  in my solitude
            You

Troubled soul
Proclivities
Loneliness
Pretty please

Inner Harbor
Baltimore
Mr. Poe
4044

Misty rain
Seattle snow
Kinda tired
On we go

Yoko yo yo!

May is Mary’s month
Carolina sky of blue

A teenage Jewish mother
gentle, caring, true

I’ve prayed to her quite often
Sung those soulful Springsteen songs too

The lifelike statue in Uppsala
The Florence Duomo beauty view

Ave Maria! Merciful Mother
Dave Matthews plays for you.

waiting for the morning light
         loved ones away
                someday!

No one important
That's alright
Young sons sung
2 green lights

          flights

You open one door
Others appear
Genuine insights
But things still unclear

The Day is Done
More than Paul Revere
But I still like Boston
Lemme whisper in your ear

You have to trust
Amidst the fear
The risk is real
But I hold you dear

Take small steps
Aqui. Over here.
72
3 dear deer

       I drive. You steer.

Andrew Greeley like Bing Crosby
Gonzaga, Bing is Back
Spoke out against George W.
Spoke out for Iraq

Bing sang with David Bowie
Par *** pum pum pum pum pum
Here said I, with a sudden cry
Is my crematorium!

David Bowie somewhat Buddhist
Never gonna fall for Modern Love
Help comes from my dad
And from Andy Dove

Bishop Blackie Ryan
The beggar girl of St. Germain
Not primarily scriptural
Maybe someday Spain

       Darling Nikki. Purple Rain.


             La Mancha: the Stain.

If I could
I would get on trains
Ride ride ride ride ride

I got the inner torment
Some kind of driving ride
Inside

Melville, Markson, Emily
Scifi bookstore Gamla Stan
Can't quite find her
Road goes ever on

I've known Mother Asia
Cruel but she can cook
Actually an artist
Jane Austen books

2 outs in the 7th
He's on the Chicago Cubs
I'm at Granny Murray's
And a couple other Irish pubs


               Persistence.

Depression is a *****.
And then you marry one.
And then you die.

I am a taxi service
Which is ok by me
He and I, Life of Pi
3033

           xie xie ni

Robert Frost
And his bid for remembrance

Promises to keep
True ones, not a semblance

Nothing gold can stay
But try, Ponyboy, try!

Tulsa, Oklahoma
Seattle twilight sky

                       Fly!

The diabetes might **** me
Might be late along
I post on Facebook
3 Neil Diamond songs

I've been to New York City
Wedding in Tel Aviv
Satellite Beach, Florida
Hutch, Mike, and Steve

Having trouble sleeping
Don't know what to eat
2 steps forward
3 steps in retreat

Shiloh. Shiloh. Shiloh!

Quixotic is the Qualyxian Quest
My children and my madness

Endurance when they come
Anxiety and sadness

Quixotic from all that reading
My mind an open book

Alone is the Bangkok temple
Quietly I look

              it took

Kamala means lotus
And the Hindu goddess Lakshmi

Yes, I do notice
If you want to, you can ax me

San Francisco is expensive
And beauty by the bay

Will she help the country?
Yes, I hope and pray

November 3rd
Not too far away

late night motel quiet
  no future, no past
     words, words
           words

intense the isolation
social life polite

tick tock degeneration
lurks eternal Night

spousal devastation
criticism her delight

silence as staycation
here I hear no sight

quest for elevation
Exoplanets might

youthful generation
aliens invite?

...............Sak Yant protection..................
All Buddha’s in the Ten Directions
              Thai sky, Irish eye
                    Resurrection

Caught in the cold rain
pelting, pelting

Hot bath at home
melting, melting

insecurities indeed
but also fight and toughness

the poems and the songs
enoughness

according to Stephen Dobyns.

listening to Leonard
now on Farrington Road

perfect offering forgotten
just exactly as I’m told

cracked I do proceed
each day I’m growing old

but the music still is young
and her beauty thrill is bold


                            Unfold.

maybe just playing around with words 
because Eternal Silence I too have heard
renders love in vain, all life and strife

                          Absurd.

Is there a hope? Close Encounters Third?

Ireland like a thread
         to and for my beloved Dead
                     Chicago to the Brazen Head ...


                                    puzzlement

.....56.....
Absurd
Words!

I fade into the night
Night fades into the day

I fade into twilight
Nothing gold can stay

Ponyboy greengold
Me too I must say

Robert Frost froze old
Promises pro play.

I'm tired. Exoplanets!
Can't find words to pray
Small victories
Dawn goes down to day

The movie was quite moving
Gracias xie xie
Silence in the afternoon
Silent is the Way

             Yea, verily. Yea.

Snowfall Shunyata
Finally escape America
Wander with the Wind
Korea: the Hermit Kingdom

A gazillion exoplanets
I see the cosmic seas
I si you in me
Brigid: protection for my 3!

Thailand, Land of the Free
Baltimore, Let it Be!
3 doe
I Doe Rey Me

                   Oui.

             We Free Thee

curious coincidence
solid point guard play

Al McGuire a wordsmith
Marquette goes all the way

I asked near the Book of Kells
he seemed unsurprised I must say

Quinlin now works with pottery
I wait, watch, wander, wonder - pray.

University of Texas
H.W. Brands
Springsteen show in Dallas
Rockin' E Street Band!

I like San Antonio
Took the River Walk
I do have ****** fantasies
But I mostly wanna talk

David Markson as Dizzy Dean
Struck out Ezra Pound
Tony, Tony macaroni
Something's lost and can't be found

                      Por favor
                    Stick Around