Up ahead some stormy weather
Gratitude and prayers for Heather.

                         patientia

Nightdrive, thrilled alive
    her kiss in misty rain
     Downbound Train!

standing in the graveyard
pondering extinct

walking slowly silent
what do the neighbors think?

we're gone in but a moment
like a beautiful woman's wink

so I join for lunch at Jaipur
and my mango lassi drink

             (I'm a Jai guy!)

horseshoe at home and 37
  Irish clover, unknown heaven
      coincidences in my mind stuck...

           I both pray and say, Good Luck!

I've been to Israel
The wedding was quite nice
Another wedding in Tokyo
Ate the Japanese rice

Lovely Susan Meek
You don't have to ask me twice
Dark hair, blue eyes
I'd like to roll the dice

                    7!

eine kleine nachtmusik
eine kleine quiet

Europe is more beautiful
I do not deny it

Dr. Thomas he was good to me
Old school Southern charm

I ain't gonna work in Charlotte
ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm

eine kleine nightprayer:
keep my loves safe from harm

The Pope against the Donald
Bridges over walls

Humanity is large
Donald Trump is small

The United States of Hate
Surely bound to fall

A new brown world a-borning
La raza cosmica equal

So
Most of the theology
Is really really bad
God remains Unknown
Sweet Sir Galahad

I dream she takes me lonely
To her daddy's church
Then to Boston town
I tell her of my search

Trinity Episcopal
Chapel of the Cross
If life comes from death
Love comes from loss

Good comes from evil
Has to be reversed
Movies, music, poetry
The breaking of the curse

Deer on my drive home
Thai Iced Tea
A little miso soup
A little Let It Be.

           xie xie ni

The madman is the man
Who has lost everything except his reason
Chesterton was right.
The heart has its reasons:
Emily's dress was white

Grey day blues in Maryland
Ordinary ugly
But basketball with my boys
Tonight two green lights

Barnes and Noble bookstore
Billy Crystal knows a hassle
Barnes is alright
But that Noble is a real ******* :)

I read a biology book
The evolution of the mammals
I remember Lou Whitaker
And shortstop Allen Trammell

9th grade biology
Mr. Crabtree's Florida class
Judi and I lab partners
Sometimes saw her at Mass

      She was a grand wee lass.

The mystical life analogous
To an abusive marriage.

The soul male, not female.

She (God) berates him
And abuses him
And hangs him.

Death is the moment
Of mystical Union.

I write Long Live Harry Chapin!
I get a little like
Walnut Heights, Ohio
I learn to ride a bike

Decades, decades later
I first see Modern Man
Tributes due to Harry
He did the best he can

YouTube is a rabbit hole
Holds a Shooting Star
We truly miss you, Harry
Holy! Ms. Pat Benatar

All my life's a circle
Twilight in my car
Reality only just a word
Harry, how right you are

                   Are!

Emmylou also sang.

Disability
Keeps me outta work
But I need to be more practical
Find my glasses and keys

I thank God for my dad
I am a taxi service
I live a double life
Please, baby, please

Krishna sings with gopi girls
I write a few professors
Am I the Postcard poet?
The wind is in the trees

Exoplanets spin
Webb telescope
Both despair and hope
Hope is a disease

          Father Greeley!

According to Rumi

childhood with sports and games
  may the play each day still stay
     protective, reflective names
                 hey, hey, hey

                callooh! callay!

The human shadow is black
But the American shadow is white
Rothko blue and green
Cranberry juice with Sprite

My son is gonna read Dune
My other son plays Destiny 2
My youngest boy takes swimming lessons
Pondicherry Zoo

They are not baptized
Only once to church
An Irish bar in Charlotte
Ireland part of my Search

Mabel Loomis Todd
Friend to Emily
Taxi from Boston to Amherst
Episcopal nearby memory

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so sad the ‘Mercan story
       racist violence is not glory
                greed indeed just bores me ...


                           Selah.

To me, being Messianic is good
I still am mad to be saved
And mad to live in a neighborhood
For the bold, the broken, the brave

Twilight is almost here
I wander quite solitary
Toledo's taqueria
The Guadalupe green clad Mary

I like scifi movies
London 2039
Stephen King, Hey 19
Alex a friend of mine

With him I drink the Wine.

My 7th grade English teacher
His name was Brian Katz
Billionaire Bruce Wayne
The man who learns from Bats

The desire to protect
The terror in the Night
You can't consult the maps
When new music is in sight

I believe in Uniquity
But don't wanna be a party of one
Wanna be myself
Like Thy will be done

         Love Born to Run

The little way is patience
Long distance running
When I was in Dublin
Silence, exile, cunning

It might not work
Or might not work till later
Florida the Land of Flowers
See ya later, Alligator

Trans man in Carrboro
She got her own style
Tells me I am handsome
After while, Crocodile

Bill Haley and the Comets
Rock Around the Clock
I have been to Albuquerque
What's up, Danger? What's up, Doc?

Chesteron in Kensington
  Fr. Greeley in Chicago
        Anglo-Irish!

the self so often a prison
     isolation like an incision
          yes, Virginia, I have a vision
                 yet unknown still is my mission

i was only in japan for 2 weeks so how much can i really know for example kyoto snow kamakura buddha sitting silently we really never glow rieko was quite kind to me rieko y takahiro i dressed up like a samurai on and on we go kyoto school buddhism i told him o yes i know seattle in the summer a raven told me so i too am lost in translation hidey hidey hidey ** miso soup edamame one man to overthrow one man to grow old lonely only lonely grow

                                     yoko yo yo

Obsessive, deeply obsessive
Confessive. Proclivities
Do the best I can
Please, baby, please

Johnny Cash fan
Break My Rusty Cage
Things fall apart
Breakdown as I age

            Turn the Page

White cathedral, Green dome
             Purple sky
               my my!

Toledo is comfort for me
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Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Catholic education

I heard Cornel West
St. John's Jesuit
T.S. Eliot
I take my medication

My grandma and her segways
My grampa and his trains
I stack the Christmas presents
Teaching is dedication

Purple near the tree
Books about Ireland
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Buddhist meditation

             Silencio

5:37 a.m.
     beginning birdsong
                is 50 for me late along?

So Krishna
As when he admonished Arjuna
On the field of battle.

Not farewell
But fare forward, Voyagers!

                    T.S. Eliot
                 "4 Quartets"

India has karma
Rome had fortune
Greece had Fate

What has happened to the United States?

I don't want a Theory of Everything
This world is vastly too complex
Just please places to make my stand
For this life and the next

Celtic Cross on Franklin Street
Guadalupe dressed in green
David Markson's mystery books
Andrew Clements' Things Not Seen

St. Stephansdom in snow
Bangkok temple silent night
Taipei 101
My childhood Mr. Spock kite

Little Richmond shoe store
Mr. Poe in Richmond too
Als Ick Kan in Staunton
The best that I can do

          LLAP. Be true.

it happened a long time ago
but only if you measure in terms of years

happened a moment ago
if you measure in touches, hopes, fears

not exactly sure what to do
more a risk, less a plan

you can’t repeat the past
can’t repeat the past? Of course you can!

small hermit in the mountains
great Hermit in the marketplace

like Korea the Hermit Kingdom
I abide and hide my face

Yeoboseyo in the morning
Tutoring in place

The Buddha and the Christ
Attention, awareness, grace.

According to Niels Bohr.

suchness, seeking, solitude
        long time passing
              unforgotten!

Fatherhood is joy
Xie xie. Xie xie ni.
1 is the loneliest number
The happiest number is 3.

             We. Oui.

I never could forget her
Though she could forget me

Isn't that the way love works
Asymmetrically?

Catholic, but not orthodox
I do like the little way
St. Therese in France
My family in Taipei

Father David Tracy
Giordano Bruno
Ping Pong at Calvert House
Gesu for those who do know

Marguerite Porete
Eckhart. Heidelberg.
Honeymoon in France
Camus and the Absurd

Simone Weil in Spain
Santa Rosa, California
America gone wrong
Don't say I didn't warn ya

              The Pequod

I come to Harper's Ferry
I come to visit John Brown
Students from China in the bookstore
Quiet in this quaint town

Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Mabel Loomis Todd
Dearest Emily
Taipei 101 is odd

The Zealot and the Emancipator
I read a bit at lunch
Black bean veggie burger
Not certainty, but a hunch

My mother Sally Brown
My father Thomas J.
Human vegetable last night
Gracias. Xie Xie.

               Taoist Way

Dublin, Corvallis, London, Wetheral
Tales to tell to one and all
My muse Ms. Meek in La Florida mall...


                          Waiting.

Often unwell, she wrote
Often unwell is true
Endurance please and movies
Rest my point of view

Wait for it to come to me
Help my second son
Libraries in the New Year
Little way French nun

Q can cook creme brulee
Now almost as tall as me
Get Cam into sports
Watch him run break free

Plato wrote in dialogue
I can write it too
Shema Israel
Marc Cohn taxi Lu

    The best for last for you

Against the threat of etoliation
I play basketball - my staycation

Moon aglow, crisp chill night
As when young and all was right

Starshine yellow, Mr. Van Gogh
Bipolar misery I too know

But not tonight, children here
Keep me sane, hold them dear

Years roll by, games do too
Sophia! Sophia! I love you.

intense the ambiguity
so confusing - the end I cannot see
Prayers to Love to set us free

                 Amen

I like The Writer's Almanac
I really really do
Minneapolis once
Vancouver 2

I got the despondency
Can't be happy blue
Not gonna show
Susan Meek not Sue

Refried bean burritos
Trump hasn't got a clue
Human more than Truman
Shinto in my shoe

           St. Louis U.

Tokyo to Kyoto
Upon the Shinkansen
Not really a question of if
More like a question of when
Will I too disappear
Like I’ve never, ever been?

Si Deus, Unde Malum
Does indeed destroy
Every human lie
But not every human joy

All attempts to think
Through theodicy
End in total failure
The silence of eternity

But in our dream drive to make art
Music and poetry
I sense a hopeful hint
A possibility

That a creative cosmic Artist
Touches our human brains
Leads us from within
Amidst our persistent pain

Toward music-making beauty
A transcendence we can’t quite see
A yearning, an acceptance
Mystical unity

lamplight rain
        night
          yo

Kamakura snow
        silencio
             yo