Boonsboro is also blue
1837
Villanova's Kevin
In Charlotte Dr. Maguire

I wait to go postal
Need to read indeed
Yo estudio
My chance y my desire

I asked for mystery
So I now give thanks
River Eden mist
In Tokyo the train

37 and 72
Ever ancient, Ever new
Still not sure what to do
Adam Raised a Cain

               !

Nowhere to run to, baby
Nowhere to hide
Nothin' to do
I lie in bed inside
Once I walked in Stockholm
In Tokyo I did ride
Bullet train into the night
Rieko was the bride

            Arigato.

always so **** serious
why can't I relax?

near death experience
relentless panic attacks

solitude is comforting
a woman would be more

but my mind is off in Copenhagen
his in Elsinore

        What exactly am I searching for?

The fool hath said there is no God
Only silence in the Night
Yo soy solo Todd
Things ain't gonna work out right

Carolina Inn
Her and me and you
Exoplanets spin
Rothko green and blue

Once I was a teacher
Now I just drive my car
Extrasolar water
I wonder if you are

           How far?

Adonis in Atlanta
I too need a creed

Adonis in Atlanta
Where my soul does bleed

Adonis in Atlanta
I speak, but who does heed?

Adonis in Atlanta
I now plant a mustard seed

I've known my share of illness
No, it isn't fun

7:30 this morning
Talk to my middle son

Shakespeare in little Staunton
Highway 81

Cinna the poet, Cinna the poet!
But the mob has now begun

My Mexican friends today
His eyes blue, My eyes verde
My mother's brown, his cafe
Guanajuato y Monterrey

               Quetzalcoatl!

Goin' back to Miami
Goin' back to my girl
But now I rest and wait
Exoplanets swirl

Something radiates
I'm tired. Goodbye, Earl.
The Ghost of Tom Joad
Far more than The Pearl

Water on the Moon?
Think she's gonna hurl
Thailand has monsoons
Dragon Scroll unfurls

       Snowfall Shunyata...

Jonathan Swift
I understand

This ain't
No nevernever land

Americans in London
Very knowing

American ignorance
Very showing

Meniere's disease
And condemnation

I agree good sir
In my staycation

Irish eyes
Irish nays

Yahoo. Yahoo.
Your game still plays.

her home is Carolina
where nothing could be finer

but she studies abroad in Florence
and she might know Friar Lawrence

also speaks Korean
so I think of what I'm seein'

African, American, European, Asian
all in one lifetime purposely playin'

it's a small world after all
if one goes down, then all will fall

For help, please, with my intensity
Teach me to relax and hopeful see
The goodness and love togetherly

                           Amen

7 years
   frantic fears
        time- tossed tears...

                     and yet, childhood reappears.

I can't quite forget the foggy mist
Near the Golden Gate bridge
Blows through fast, doesn't last
The City is pretty at night

Hablo Espanyol, pero solamente un pequito
Maria y Elena
Santa Rosa
Santa Fe

California is Asian
Noodles
Dumplings
Dim Sum

I tried to show her
Sadness
New York City
Gunmetal grey

         Nothing Gold Can Stay

born into evil days
resisting the evil - though it stays and stays
silent solitude the only way one who knows prays …


                                          fightback!

I turn my gaze in Your direction
Please turn Your gaze in mine
I take one step straight towards You
And suddenly I find
You take three secret steps
Inside my seeking mind
I continue walking toward You
And truly I’m amazed
You run to me with arms outstretched
The Determiner of Days
Tenderly You say to me,
“You were Born to Run always”

The man with moonlight in his hand
Has nothing there at all
The priest is surely right
Don Quixote Wetheral

But the view is whitelight glowing
Radiates my soul
I rest and keep unknowing
Don't think. Just look. Behold!

The heavens hallow holy
The church. The grass. The deer.
When I die, grassy knolly
Whisper in her ear:

               Aqui. Aqui.
        He loved you hear.

The sadness will last forever
But what about the love?

San Patricios returns
Green the turtle dove

Mexico nearby
Cabeza de Vaca I'm thinking of

Los Indios
Galveston slips the glove

I never know if I'm good or not
Catholic conscience punishing
Or maybe oldest child
Synchronicity from Sting
1999
Tonight I heard Prince sing
2021
Thank you Thanksgiving

                 Pecan pie

60637
Chicago on my mind

The British love in heaven
Seek and ye shall find

So long David Brooks
You deserve Chiraq

Peace to pizza cooks
Fr. Greeley's books come back

Both assistance and attack.

grateful for my boys, grateful for the beach
   grateful for the time that I tried to teach

          I wake now worn and weary
           what I seek just out of reach

             please help me to endure
                 empty, eerie, each

Secular living soon on the way
Applied for a restaurant job today

Soon I will go back to work
I hope my boss is not a ****

American movies I do love
I wait in line; I do not shove

Asian rain touched my mind
Asian trains arrive on time

Life's mysteries: Unresolved
I sleep and wake: no problem solved

She asked if I like mysteries
I replied, I do indeed

My teacher, he wrote one or two
What would Blackie Ryan do?

My brother Ryan has a heart of gold
Hope from him as I grow old

Not far, Not far can I see
My children's voices comfort me

A desperate hope that I die well
No one important; just Todd Witherell.

Can't find what I'm looking for
Anguish of the search
Not in a happy home
Not inside a church

Battle of South Mountain
Battle with my self
Seattle in the winter
Legolas the Elf

Oxford was quite beautiful
Twilight grey on blue
Mario Cuomo's article
Me at Seattle U.

Let centuries pass
Box clicks slowly open
Susan Darlene Meek
Holy holy spoken

                     Red Pine!

4 compliments on my Johhny Cash shirt
September When It Comes

Hot. Sweaty. The Divine Inert.
Cliff Pickover adds large sums

The Book of Black. Mandlebrot Set
See how they run

Bobcat leap, Autumn creep
Emily a wayward nun

        Thy will be done.

The darkness has its place
Hidden in the heart

It is not always evil
Napolean Blown Apart

I wait and watch and wonder
I choose my three strong bows

The forest is primeval
The wind it whispers woes

                  Overthrows!

Dr. Thomas, my favorite teacher
Under a southern sky

As your time to teach is through, I asked
Will you contemplate the Cosmic Why?

I’ll tell you the truth, Todd, he said
The honest truth, I will not lie

In retirement I will reread all of Karl Barth
And listen to Mozart every day until I die.

A beautiful sunlit day
Michael and I do meet

Basketball to play
No one to defeat

I give Father Greeley's book
He shares Horace McKenna

Chicago and Georgetown look
St. Stephansdom, Vienna

                 Jesuits!

September 11th, 1921
Subramania Barathi dies
Dedicated to the goddess of learning
Known to be quite wise

Mania is a mystery thing
Sometimes comes from the gods
If you ever go to Reno
Be sure to know the odds

I bought The Hunger Games
I volunteer! I volunteer!
Katniss Everdeen
Julia Roberts. Not Richard Gere.

Thich Nhat Hanh was a poet
The Dalai Lama is not
Shiva dances and so it
Is hot at Angkor Wat

        Gonna help my brother Scott.

grey day blues
        Seattle style hues
                  Qs!

Wolfgang Pauli to Neils Bohr
Expecting to be rebuffed:
You probably think these ideas are crazy.

To which Neils Bohr:  Unfortunately,
They are not crazy enough.

Despite the Transition to Sameness
Jonas can See Beyond

The mystery is nameness
And memory almost gone

Chrismas morning in snow
The agony of war

Terror and letting go
1, 2, 3 ... evermore

Grateful for my dad
Grateful for Michelle
Help me take it easy
The Farmer in the Dell

I love basketball
Take a little walk
Time for sweetly sharing
Time for troubled talk

                Rest

idiot imbecility indeed
   dead level of the mass
           the Grotesque

Nietzsche finally a blessing
But a catastrophe at first
I remember Melanie Fritz
And I remember the Dublin nurse

I said her accent was musical
She said only when we're drunk
I Ain't Gonna Work on Maggie's Farm No!
Maggie was a punk

I would like to visit Heidelberg
At times I live Without a Why
Abgeschedenheit at night
Thanksgiving pecan pie

            Ay! Ay! Ay!

Mexico’s pink lagoon
      last night Irish tunes
           she sleeps near Flaming June

  Can you read Elvish runes?

Korean shamans on my mind
Women
Mountains
Words

I shared movies
poems
fantasies
I think she may have heard

Philo-Sophia
English teacher
Dad
Theonerd

To die into it
Silent
Flight
Nightbird

Tokyo to Kyoto
Upon the Shinkansen

In Wetheral we return
Although we've never been

Socrates the wisest
Of all ancient men

Knowing he don't know
Rey saved Kylo Ren!

Get him to and from school
Slowly through the days
Shamans in the mountains
Smoke and mist and haze

Fire in the sky
Skyline ablaze
So many doomed to die
Baby, I'm amazed


                       Up!

if I could inspire or intelligentify
even one other person
it would be enough

my life life would have a meaning
even a cosmic purpose
despite all this other meaningless stuff

that person and my personhood
connecting for a moment
words rekindling firepuffs

alighting through transient time
however brief a breath break
like diamonds in the rough

maybe it’s true
life ***** then we die

disappearance forever
silent night sky

the Void of non-being
no woman, no cry

yet even if true
still I will try

to resist all this hate
the exclusion and lies

in quiet contemplate
my twilight goodbye

Hope is given only for the hopeless
Benjamin in Spain
Scholem in Jerusalem
Winslow Homer in Prouts Neck, Maine

Elpis was a curse
Pero, yo espero in the night
I reach out to Alex
Like Sor Juana - mystic flight

Exoplanets spin
Extrasolar water
Tried to show her truths
Tried to truly taught her

Fatherhood is quiet
A little basketball
Please courage unto the end
All Walls Fall

              El Salvador!

Fox News
Disgusting Americans

Ignorant racists
Have their sway

The Republican Party
Enemy of humanity

May it be destroyed
Some fine day

death as morningless sleep
         with quiet prayers we weep
                            promises still to keep ...

                 amazing was Siem Reap.

attracted to mythology
but unable to believe

aware of the mind’s pathology
yet cannot quite conceive

of life beyond this world
the Dead cannot retrieve

so they linger in our photos
do their smiles for miles deceive?

or is this a quantum multiverse
as strange lights our fears ..................

                                     relive, revive, relieve?

I set my sights salvation
Stupid thing to do
Now I'm only lonely
Souped up 72

Got a little money
It won't last too long
La Florida is sunny
George W. was wrong

America is ugly
But Charleston is nice
Dante and Beatrice
He only saw her twice

I was born too late
We face annihilation
If I could I surely would
Educate my nation

       Probably cremation