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.

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

alone, unknown, asleep
       Trappist 1 tantalizes
             dreaming of the Deep

Is what I usually say.

the purpose of the artist
is always to deepen the mystery

so said Francis Bacon
from the pages of Irish and English history

I do not disagree
(and I told her his feet were blistery)

but in this disenchanted world
it would have to be in a list for free:

                          Wetheral - Cambrian
                         Book of Kells - Burke
                          Corvallis - Farrington
                          Backstreets - Dziedzic
                            Carrboro - Greeley
                       Wake County jail - Sallyport
                                   Hitch Hikin’ etc ...

Back to the ordinary
Be a long distance dad

Friend to Mark and Bob
Everybody gets sad

I remember he said
Best time he ever had

When we were all together
Sweet Sir Galahad

Asia in my life
Rice. The Buddha too.
Thai iced tea
Merton at JMU

Hunan vegetable
Korean grocery store
Bangkok in the rain
4044

San Francisco Zen
Two years in Taipei
Lost in Translation
Still I say xie xie

Encounters with Chinese Hermits
Red Pine's Road to Heaven
A little won ton soup
3837

to see once more the ocean
     to gaze the glowing moon

to ponder Trappist-1
     aliens arriving soon?

to see my sons a-swimming
     in July,  or maybe June

to rest at last in peace
    Elsewhere (like lovely Lina and daring Doon)

Blaise Pascal

According to Harry Chapin

I like the fact that Aslan is a Turkish word
It's a kind of Turkish delight
Greece in the morning
Istanbul at night

Oxford pub by myself
The Eagle and the Child
Emily in Amherst
The Nights gone wicked wild

I spend much time alone
But I am not a hermit
She is like Miss Piggy
I am green like Kermit

Can Susan save me?
Can poetry revive?
53 and falling
But glad to be alive

            Clive.

Protect him from the terror in the night
And the arrow that flies by day
Basketball is my holy hope
Californ I A

Gratitude for Andy
Stars come out to play
Picasso's Guernica
Live to write another day

I like miso soup
Summer rolls, spring board bops
No need to get suspicious
No need to call the cops

Beautiful blue morning
Exoplanet Sky
Un Escritor, Mr. Rodriguez
Why, Judi, Why?

           I Thai Fly

Cities yes
Countries no

Empires always
Come and go

Human beings
Thus and so

Disapppear
I told you, Joe.

Poetry that evokes, shakes, wakes
Interpreted by you
Interpreted by 2
Interpreted by few

               Jens Muhling who

                    Aliens view?

                         Sophia U.

that which does not **** me
only makes me stronger

so wrote Friedrich Nietzsche
but he ain’t around no longer

the military school of life
isn’t a whole lot of fun

you **** and then get killed
soon dead and then you’re done


                  Who actually won?

Hablo espanol
Pero solamente un pequito

When I was in Siem Riep
I feared the dengue fever mosquito

Cortez was a killer
Neil Young was right

Angkor Wat amazing
Ancient the twilight

Para los pobrecitos

           Fight!

I don't understand women
Women don't understand me
3737
7273

Scarlett Johansson is beautiful
So is Susan Meek
Yo soy un theonerd
Yo soy un board game geek


                   Trains!

Ain't no justice, Richard Parker
But hope springs eternal
Friends still embrace
7 Bridges Road

He eats peach cobbler
I eat won ton soup
Daoist hermits meditate
The Ghost of Old Tom Joad

Free libraries
Open basketball courts
African shamans
No need to speed or goad

Sleeping under stars
Making out in cars
Memories recede
Memories explode

         Zeroed.

The Belle of Belfast
And Finnegan’s Wake

Trinity Library
My breath does take

Beckett Bridge
I walk and quake

River Liffey
Lady of the Lake?

David Markson
       Yellow
        Selah

Ambiguous, and also us,
Among my favorite words

Often dear despite still unclear
If you haven’t heard

Good and evil side by side
Dove and predator bird

Hard to trust, yet trust I must,
Though some find this Absurd

nothing to do, nowhere to go
a little music, soon soft snow
alone, time’s zone - who really knows?

                 my little room

Tienmu means motherly heaven
              young son sung
                    and today

                             11

awake all night, walking the lot
       lightning for hours, soon I am not
                
step by step as I roam in the rain
         gratuitous grace, persistent pain

                                solitude.

Rabbi Nahman, tormented Master
Vincent, torment too

The latter was a green eyed painter
The former a Rabbi Jew

I rode trains in Europe
Tokyo to Kyoto knew

When I disappear
Kiss the twilight blue

             For me.
             For you.

I'm not gonna get it perfect
But I just might get it wound
Bide my time and placements
San Francisco soon

The battle might be over
The battle might begin
Battle in Seattle
Thomas means the Twin

I'm up; it's 2:37
I wait for late October
Halloween Chicago
Play the Irish Rover

Halloween Chicago
Jersey Devil too
I ride the Tucson Train
I pray for him. I do.

            Not-two

crawling from Crawford
     San Antonio surprise
            ALL WALLS FALL
                   Collapse!!!

missing my marvels tonight I am
    Quinlin, Calyx, and Cam Cam
                bless you boys
              thank you, Ma’am

                       Shazam!

I can put it behind me
My so called life
Sleeping late and long
Sleeping through the strife

Santa Rosa son
Sacramento Mark
Strange things happen
When the sky goes dark

Depression is a *****
So is my wife
If only I could switch
But I'm in Bipolar Park

Time tick tocks
Libraries so quiet
Absurd, yes absurd
I do not deny it

weird coincidences of words and names
         at times quite frightening
        at times wondrous strange...

      mysterious as unknown fame.

A love for the English language, yes
Pero, un pequito Espanyol tambien
La Florida in summer
San Francisco Zen

Staunton aglow in snow
Dr. Cohen calls Shakespeare the Gift
Anxiety attacks
Grateful when the depression lifts

I was in the UK twice
Went to Poet's Corner
Long Black Veil
Solitary Mourner

I love American music
But I'm not that great a singer
My lips upon her lips
Her hair within my fingers

Simone Weil in Assisi
1937
Guernica as well
Stranger Things' 11

          Merci

memories
of strolling Japan

snow on cedars
Ishmael can

cherry blossoms
Rieko and

wonderment
on the shinkansen

I'm not orthodox
Tried to be, but I can't
Giordano Bruno
Marguerite Porete

Bustling Bangkok traffic
Thai forest monks
Fo Guang Shan
San Francisco Zen

Dread Annihilation
My beloved brother Scott
We four at Angkor Wat
Thin Red Line. Another World. Sean Penn.

King Lear
Paradise Lost
Give My Love to Rose
All the King's Men
      
          Satellite High
           (Number 10)

Said Igor Stravinsky

I wasn't blown away
By the Duino Elegies
But he's right about beauty and terror
Was in Vienna for 3 days

I like German food
But I'm pescatarian now
Only vegetarian sausage
Never drank much beer

The doc called it Meniere's disease
Vomiting, vertigo
Comes a Rattle and Hum
Tinnitus in my right ear

Arapahoe. Seminole. Apache.
Shawnee. Pawnee. Stays.
Thomas Builds the Fire
Burning, yearning quays

                   Cays

She thought I chopped down the fairy tree
But I just planted it somewhere else

She'll have to fly from Dublin
Visit the American South

Drive on up to Chicago
Move by word of my mouth

Catch a train to Jersey
Then back to the Book of Kells

See you in Seattle
In Toledo the Witherells

          Savages, Ishmael

The libraries against the politicians
The teachers against the tyrants
Snowfall shunyata
Chicago Seattle Taipei

Little hotel room
Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing at all can last
Daniel Berrigan, Dorothy Day

Nothing at all can last
I still can't forget her hair!
Her mouth on me down there
Silent is the Way

          Silent: xie xie.

are fantasies delusions
if they don’t come true?

or are the revelations
that connect the future two?

or jailbreak plans a-borning
though hidden far from view?

what happens if they waken
dreams that I am you?

light rain splittering in headlights
       memories - the Bangkok night
                  shunyata insight

The Dark Lord is Rising
In the SouthEast, Frodo.

All his mind is bent upon it.

The Dark Lord and the Ring:

They are one.

Providence is inherently ambiguous
Says the military man in the Nation

Abraham Lincoln would doubtless agree
The Divine Purpose beyond revelation

So would sorrowful Soren Kierkegaard
Who knew terror of teleological suspension

If God is, then I think She is Hidden
(You won't find her at the Republican Convention)

Stanley and Zero
Madam I'm Adam
3773
Do Geese see God?

Dreamed up her 3 weeks ago
Woke up feeling good
But it was just a dream
Yo soy solo Todd

Palindromic primes
Cliff Pickover Twitter
Cranberry juice with lime
101 is odd

Ashes to the ocean
Seattle ferry boats
Salmon in the sunlights
The water, not the sod

               Agua!

According to Friedrich Nietzsche.

If I live two decades more
How will I endure?

Eternity asleep
Enticing the allure

conversation concerning Tamil kings
     family photo at Angkor brings
        Subramania Bharati sings
                  
                      Openings!

Yo soy un isolato
Tryin' to break free
One foot upon the sand
Two hearts upon the sea

Maybe aliens
Maybe destiny
Taipei 101
Red Pine - xie xie ni

                    Si.