Dr. Thomas was very caring
Years at JMU
Eine kleine nachtmusik
3032

I'm a mess of contradictions
Carolina blue
Hath the rain a father?
Monsieur Albert Camus

                   Absurd!

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?

What are songs but dreams?
The depths of human wishes

Aquaman still schemes
He can talk to fishes!

I'm grateful for the teaching
We are Robinson!

Still I am outreaching
Before my day is done

                   Letters.

I know they think I'm strange
My son likes Stranger Things
We watch in the library
I study **** Yangming

My son born in Taipei
Confucian Temple sings
Dragons fly at night
Destinies they bring

                    Protection.

A little breakfast this morning
Finally I relax
The Secret of Roan Inish
The mystery of Jax

Doctor's appointment today
I hope she understands
My sons callooh! callay!
Little River Band

I saw Angkor Wat
Rode the Taipei train
Never been to heaven
Never been to Spain

I like the colleges
But just to walk around
Americans all want freedom
I want higher ground

            David Markson
             Ks Ezra Pound

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

                 amazing was Siem Reap.

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

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!

She says American cops
All jacked up
Gonna move to Rotterdam

I tell her I agree
Wish her well
Call my sweet Cam Cam

She drives me to the bank
Says bye, my dear
Gratefully I am

Eating lunch
Udon soup
Blessings to her fam

The Republican Party is racist ****
Can we break on through?
Desafortunadamente
Doo Wah Diddy Do

Goin' back to Miami
Read a few good books
Even the teacher got no idea
Just how mean she looks

Tired, sad, lonely
Years flow by like rain
Good times pass quickly
Lingering is the pain

I believe in gratitude
Thank you for my sons
Women are cruelty
But I'm Taipei 101

             Red Pine!

Coach Brian Katz
Dr. William Thomas
Ms. Susan Meek

Shuttle 37
James Tiberius Kirk
JJ Abrams
In scifi the Sacred hides

Once I was a teacher
Now I do not work
Tel Aviv was blue
Quaint was Malahide

When I was a child
Mr. Spock kite
Live long and prosper
California: Oceanside

Just coincidence
Maybe apophenia
Maybe a little hope
Maybe Starfleet ride

        maybe inside

awake all night, sleeping son
        tell Kylo Ren, Rey’s the One
                   try to do what must be done ...


                             to teach - reach!

The pain of goodbye
A stab
A strike
An ache

Chicago
Chiraq
ChiTown
Lady of the Lake

Saint Augustine
San Francisco
San Diego
Santa Rosa awake

My chaotic life
Hospitals
Lithium
Meaningless, but not a mistake

                   Nagas Snake

life as extended madness
desire, despair, dadness
soon sunlight, still soul sadness

                       young sons sung!

We come up short
And we go down hard

It's too true, Bruce
In my backyard

Can't quite find
Search and search

Concert hall
Quiet church

Scifi movie
Moby ****

Young sons sung
Point guard quick

Drifting days
Starry nights

Shakespeare plays
Marital fights

Childhood memory
Mr. Spock Kites!

Early 1980s
Sacramento Bee
Holm Oak Way
My friends and I and me

Football, ping pong, swimming
Hoopin' relentlessly
Jerrod, Ernest, Kenny
Arcade I can see

Old Town Sacramento
Mustard Seed Cafe
Baseball card collecting
Rickey Henderson A

Coach Brian Katz
Teaching me the Cay
I left without my hats
The Long Run I do play

         my my xie xie

Red Pine at Fo Guang Shan
And in Washington State
Catteleya in the morning
North and South for Cate

They call it sleep paralysis
Don't think they understand
We in Siena Cathedral
Me Playin' in a Rockin' Band

Wife and 5 children
Cabin broken down
Everybody knows
I am the newsboy of this town

I find Carl Hiaasen funny
Brendan Behan too
Just wanna do
The very best that I can do

   Satellite Beach, see me threw.

I keep writing because I ...
And I ...
So do you

I read Life of Pi
Pondicherry Zoo

Purple goes the sky
Carolina blue

I live Without a Why
Souped up 72

In my solitude
Ever ancient, Ever new

Because the Night
Does she, Does she do?

     She's like the Wind

             Hoo! Hoo!

I shared the bipolar
And it's possible
They know me
Better than I know myself

If so: caution. care. cunning.
And protection
From Oxford
And from Legolas the Elf.

tracking Trappist-1
      coincidences come
             discoveries in sun...


            Alive out there!

An American dreaming Romania
Bucharest to Baltimore
Exoplanets spin
4044

Time tick tocks
Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor
Death of Abraham Lincoln
Death of Thomas More

Sometimes it's a bit trippy
Have we been here before?
I did not trust George W.
My mother distrusted Al Gore

Edgar Allen Poe in Richmond
Quaint and curious forgotten lore
Susan, Wendy, Judi
Satellite Beach fo sho!

                        Emails ...

Basketball tonight
Michigan vs. UCLA

I eat my veggie burger
I watch the game hey hey!

Moon in mist above
Yellow light xie xie

Dragon temple in Taiwan
Episcopal church today

Celtic Cross. Daoist Way.

the poems may simply mean
I’m a manic depressive

my emotions overwhelm me
intensity transgressive

they have to find release
or else relapse regressive

I’d like to make my music
mystery impressive

but mostly it’s my memories
conditioned as confessive

Andrew Greeley enlightening
On Springsteen
And he prayed
Thy will be done

In his Imagination
God is a
Truly Beautiful Woman

And like Rumi
He sincerely believed
That the person
Who has seen
A truly beautiful woman
Had seen a glimpse of God

Her eyes shine like
(Because they created)
The Midnight Sun

OOOOOOOO She's the One.

She's the One, yeah!

She's the One!

Nara deer park
    far fear, deep dark
        Jack Burden, not Willie Stark ...

                            hope.

Today we play and fishing
Tonight is still unknown

Each way still finds me wishing
For her voice on my cell phone

Solitude is puzzling
quiet and alone

I can never solve the mystery
Do I live in The Twilight Zone?

If I die in Dublin
Bring me to the pub, Granny Brown’s

Sing for me Finnegan’s Wake
Carry me cold out of town

Bury me on the Cliffs of Moher
You’ll know you’re alive up there

Then stare out at the ocean
Windswept waves, silent prayer

The American nation began in genocide
Slave labor all around
The Albino Whale is white
I am both lost and found

I've been to Copenhagen
Dear Soren Kierkegaard
Basketball is easy
Sexuality is hard

Went to Tivoli Gardens
Took my two young sons
Fireworks last night
On Taipei 101

Train back to Stockholm
Walked around Gamla Stan
Science fiction bookstore
Aliens anon?

             3 deer. 1 fawn.

I Google my sons
My grandmother returns

Look at Himself there
My soul still it burns

Like Molly Bloom
Her intelligence churns

I too an Irish Savage
Who teaches and learns

california snow and tidal pools in monterrey fog on the golden gate bridge driving south at night toward L.A. me and mark and jerrod and ernest playing basketball in the 80s richard rodriguez writing in san francisco cornel west running in sacramento and heather october wind and water weather

                                                 the past slips ...

the little way
     little lift
un pequito gift

Little pieces of hope
In a world of vast despair
Small steps only
Highwater Everywhere

She's gentle, kind, caring
A diamond in the rough
Jesus wasn't humble
No, no. He was tough.

America is Ignorance
But I like Johnny Cash
Bodies in the furnace
Humans turned to ash

Stockholm was so pretty
Scifi Gamla Stan
Charming Uppsala Cathedral
A little garlic naan

                         Tak

Un Escritor, Un Escritor
The Writer's Almanac
Don't know where you're goin'
But you ain't comin' back

Childhood in Toledo
3333 Drummond Road
Make the drive for Christmas
Ghost of old Tom Joad

Make the drive for Christmas
So many presents under the tree!
Purple her favorite color
Purple my grandma Marie

                 Purple? Si!

despite sins, faults, failings
       despite my lifelong inner wailing..

                        to be grateful.

Rick Steves in Uppsala
Ordinary Mary
I eat Chana Masala
I read Irish fairies


Arthur Edens reversaleth
Michael Clayton sees
I walk alone in winter woods
I pray upon my knees

               For Scott. Please.

dry lightning, heat lightning
incredible mystery, beauty a bit            
                                                 frightening
throughout the night,
                                  memory delightening


                       the sky! the sky!

According to James Joyce.

if I slept for a trillion years
would I reawaken as a fossil?

would the scientists be surprised
just a bit or perhaps colossal?

I fear Eternal Night
the sleep called morningless

please protect my boys
May her memory mind be blessed!

One life. One life only.
Mostly disappointment and pain
1st Noble Truth
Women to ordain

2 years of Latin
But I wasn't very good
Jeovanni's pizza
In my neighborhood

Never been to Albania
Or Tajikistan
Know no Russian beauties
Saw the Wrath of Khan

Shamans in the mountains
Koreans in Taiwan
Tuk Tuks in Bangkok
Temple of the Dawn

            Soon Gone.

Poems in the night
      Taipei taxis
              101

No joy in Mudville
Strikeout once more

Melville prophetic
Hate like before

Oh, Canada!
Is it you we implore?

Where is Elsewhere?
Who opens the Door?

I like libraries because....
really, who can say?

the quiet or the causes?
deep December or merry May?

the reading and the pleading
a place for DVDs to play?

Red Pine's curious volume
Chinese hermits within the Way?

perhaps the wish that I might fish
and find dolphin words that like to play.


                                          Someday!

So I have to walk through  a group of protesters today holding signs that say Stop White Hate Racism Against White People Is Still Racism It's OK To Be White in order to buy my root beer float and drink it at the bar while I watch the Michigan State vs. Iowa State basketball game there are almost no nonwhite people in this little town and as I walk into the restaurant I say to the teenagers who work as servers and waitresses I'm not going to be hated for being white if I eat lunch here am I? No they reply I didn't think so I say election 2024 is building racehate is in the air so is white grievance so is American Ignorance

                   Shakyamuni Buddha

                   The original Woke man

Not good vs. evil
Boring dailiness
Thai summer rolls
Krop kun kop

My sons play video games
I drive North
Time drives too
does not stop

Exomoons beyond
Extrasolar water
In my solitude
Darry and Soda Pop

Uppsala in spring
Vienna in winter
Edgar Allen Poe
My brother in law Lap

           Shakyamuni!

Life as perpetual fear
Countries as unities of terror

        the American Abyss

3:13, 3:13
I drink another Coke

The despair returns; I hideaway
I hear no funny joke

Solitude is tiring
Company is strain

I sleeplonglate, fear for Fate
Buzzing in my brain

             She's insane!