Not intentionally antinomian
But molds must be broken
Secrets must be spoken
Women. More than one.

Exoplanets. Exomoons.
Asian trains. Taipei typhoons.
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                   Sanuk Di!

               Thy will be done.

Yes, Ishmael.

I'm a former *** School student
In a time when religion ain't much

My high school basketball team
Mike, Steve, and Hutch

Transient, so transient
Nothing Gold Can Stay

Ponyboy at Robinson
The Giver in Taipei

Thank you, students.
Xie Xie.

Amos 3:6
Amos 3:7
Work at Moby ****'s
Stranger Things 11

Tidal pools in Monterey
Ghost of Old Tom Joad
Rockaway the days
Brain on overload

Endless isolation
Do the best I can
Silent meditation
Tokyo the plan

             mu

sleeping, I don’t fear it
        feel it in me, near it
              when others sing I hear it ...

                              Bacchic spirits.

To protect the vulnerable
And the Common Good.

Said J.B.S. Haldane

to sit upon the train
and travel the towns of Europe

to leave IHOP in the rain
after I eat pancakes and maple syrup

to sit in a cavernous cathedral
alone and calm and quiet

to see the Japanese garden again
In Portland, where the anti-Trumpists riot

to walk along the beach
as my growing children play

to do one good thing for each
before I die and fade away

Al-Hallaj mystic and martyr
    Sufi seeker, soul starter
      tortured in Baghdad
            dear departer

San Antonio riverwalk
Solitary sound

Tony Tony stick around
The nation is lost and can't be found

.........Mario Cuomo.......
              Seattle U.
          Pondicherry Zoo

Not in good health
My pill box is open
Sleep late and long
Lonely silent nights

Thank you. Thank you, Dad.
Slowly guacamole
My place is clean again
Gatsby's green light

                 Flight...

Library at Seattle U.
Me reading all alone
University of Chicago
I threw a Rolling Stone

Galaxy Quest is best
Better than Twilight Zone
All these little poems
On my little black cell phone

                     Ole!

Let them think me strange
Unusual and odd

I'm not Danny Ainge
I'm just lonely Todd

Theology unlikely
Theology seeking God

I am no speed racer
Tonight i merely plod

      Ashes to Ashes
         Seattle sky
               Sod

no one important xie xie
talked with my son today
told him callooh! callay!
Silent is the Way

              Yea, verily. Yea.

The capitalist accumulation
Leaves the poor lost and homeless

The CEOs don't care
The intellectuals Romeless

Millionaires and billionaires
From Wall Street to L.A.

Listen to each other
But not what ordinary people say

A mighty Judgement is comin'
But I could be wrong

You see you hear these funny things
In Leonard Cohen's Tower of Song

nightdrive to Wilmington beach
                 breaking with the white waves
                                  morning light

.....She and I.....
and El Padrino
  Philadelphia
        Dali!

Once I was a teacher
Now I'm just a dad
Cycling sunlit Stockholm
Best time I ever had
Coleridge bipolar
William Blake gone gently mad
My sons in Wetheral
See Sweet Sir Galahad

               Egad!

Heilige Maria
Kurt Wagner
    patientia

Grateful for the calm
Grateful for the walk

Very nearly goalless
I would like to talk

Then slip away
Deer appear at night

My boys in Europe's trains
She and I in flight

          She and I delight

Very little influence
Almost none at all
Un pequito faith
Faith in the little and small

Rabbits in my yard
Jacob brings me bruschetta
Guadalupe green
Rosalita y Rosetta

Emily in Amherst
Markson - New York City
Memories of Stockholm
Where the women are so pretty

Exoplanets discovered
Extrasolar water
I still like the Hobbit
A bit more than Harry Potter

Please peace for Chicago
Father Greeley's books
Tucson, Arizona
The Baggins and the Tooks

Tucson, Arizona
Guadalupe green
Prayers for Alex Nava
Hope in Things Not Seen

Patience, please, and timing
Try to get it right
Frederick, Maryland
Irish eyes  alight

I mentioned Bobby Sands
He seemed a bit surprised
Hold your fire, men
Till you see the Whites in their eyes

Tomorrow Miguel O'Hara
Tomorrow clean my car
Tomorrow y  Tomorrow
Exoplanet star!

        Where the Wild Things Are ...

compassion amidst despair
     quiet. kindness. care.
       help them prepare ...

              

          la cosmica futura

Death will be like sleeping
But never waking up

Why am I afraid?
Pass the chalice cup

I still miss Quayzar
Had him as a pup

Marriage is misery
Don't got no prenup

           'Sup

Un Escritor, Un Escritor
Richard Rodriguez in Mexico City
Me in Sacramento
Where the girls are so pretty

Steinbeck is right - we are lonesome animals
Writing to be less lonely
Don't even own a tv no more
I write telephonely

I was born in a time of war
Vietnam raging and raging
Summer of 69
Bob Seger Turn the Paging

War is the Father of All Things
Nature a Heraclitean Fire
I grant I never saw a goddess go
She is my burning desire

           My love a funeral pyre

Journalist: Why do you write?

Paul Theroux: To make you see.

It's ok to be no one important
       gratitude for dailiness
                     sleep

Journey into Russia
     Deep into the Taiga
            The vision of Agafya

3 tragedies and a satyr play
          Hang on Sloopy
          Sloopy hang on!

Pope Francis truly cares
welcomes, smiles, dares
      Angels Unawares!

a tale told by an idiot
and now it leads the nation

sound and fury fulminates
no place for a vacation

the election soon will come around
gladiatorial invitation

all empires eventually run aground
what follows termination?

Patience, wait with patience
Wind in seagreen trees

Walking meditation
Quietly he sees

Hey hey now UK
Oxford, if you please

Buddhamind in Bangkok
Here and there and these

            Summer sun
            winter freeze

I am not a saint
I won't be canonized
Cornel West resists
Donald Trump lies

Often unwell
Sick. Lay in bed.
Thinking of the future
Praying to and for the Dead

Boring dailiness
Movies. Music. Books.
The smell of college offices
The Bagginses and Tooks

A lot of little poems
Reno. Sage Ridge School.
Cordelia's nobility
Brutus is a fool

                  Taipei pool

Martin Luther's own words, re the origin at Wittenberg Monastery of the key principles of the Protestant Reformation:

This knowledge the Holy Spirit gave me on the privy in the tower.

not much you can do about evil
he spoke the troubled (and troubling) truth

but give away your money
like Zacchaeus to the impoverished youth

I’ve been once to Minneapolis
but never Hibbing or Duluth

tonight I too Ain’t Talkin’
mystic garden gleams forsooth

Fr. Greeley and All That Jazz
                  Similes use like or as
                            She gives us all She has ...

                        Angelique!

The truly sacred is hidden
Jesus in the manger
Buddhist monk in Bangkok
Jesus in the stranger

I wander lonely as a cloud
Take my sons to dinner
Close to the very heart of God:
The lost, the lonely, the sinner

Silent meditation
Women in Tai Chi
Basketball at twilight
Thailand sanuk di!

He said he's 37
Me I'm 52
Life of Pi perhaps
Philosophy as Zoo

    And a daughter too

Vernon Brown today
I listen with wide eyed wonder
One eye on Kansas
One eye on Germany

Would like to read Novalis
Also Holderlin
I like Bavarian pretzels
Shanghai - xie xie ni

Mr. John Denver
German nature mystic
Uncle named Matthew
1973

                    We.

Andrew Greeley enlightening
On Springsteen
And he prayed Thy will be done
In his imagination
God is a Truly Beautiful Woman
And though the conventional
May find this odd
Like Rumi he sincerely believed
That the person who has seen
A truly beautiful woman
Has seen a glimpse of God

Her eyes shine like (because they created)
The Midnight Sun
OOOOOOOOOOO She’s the One!
She’s the One, yeah!
She’s the One!

The isolation is frightening at times
I reach out but do not reach
You should see the girls
Who live in Satellite Beach!

Shared privacy, One love
Hablo un pequito Espanyol
Vegetarian burritos
80s Rock n' Roll

I like those Taoist Immortals
I climbed Yangmingshan
Thin Red Line
Scifi Gamla Stan

The marriage is Disaster
But she gave me the gift of travel
The World's Greatest Detective
The Riddler too unravels

All the King's Men at JMU
She calls him Jackie Bird
I rebel; therefore we exist
One man against the Absurd

                    Word!

............An otherworldly keening..........
        much mystery in its meaning
     we face forward: listening, leaning ...


                    Across the Border!

A little sleep
Brings a little relief
Gracias
Xie Xie

Still have gout
In my elbow
But I live to write
Another day

Lu Lu in the Navy
A bona fide Batman fan
Wanna play with Fire, Scarecrow?
Run to you and I ran

Wyoming Catholic College
Men become hermits. Women go mad.
Once I was a teacher
Now I'm just a dad

             Sweet Sir Galahad

They don't really wanna learn
They mostly wanna fight
And Janey is the girl
Who I'll be with midnight

San Francisco Zen
Quiet in the flight
Exoplanets spin
Florida is fright

Irate Iowa
Berlin burning bright
Northbound 35
Texas 2 tonight

      Well, alright!

train tracks and cemeteries
       not to praise, I come to bury
                   Moby **** in my library ...


                           like a jackal