death always wins,I play my losing hand

at night I sing along with the rockin’ band
   against the Trumpists and the hate
           I make my surrealist stand

alone, unknown, twilight zone -

                   and yet, the Quest is grand.

Today is the Buddha's birthday
Suchness, Shakyamuni

I've seen the monks in Bangkok
Kamakura too

The dharma has spread West
Sometimes a little loony

But when i walk the way
I meditate on you

              Europe and Asia
                      Not-two.

for years the synchronicities
and now the youtube voice

I sent away my poetry
but I am not James Joyce

idealism is a curious thing
go ask Josiah Royce

cosmic goes American
can coincidence be choice?

grey day rain and ice
no Carolina blue

passed this time for sushi
but Pokemon for you

deer park in Nara
the Buddha taught not-two

snow in Kamakura
ever ancient, ever new

I think I do write at times for posterity
My own and the big wide world's
Throw 'em far ahead
Unknown alone unfurled

I like science fiction
Arrival on my mind
Close Encounters still
Europa Report does find

Old friends fall away
No more 2037
Ireland xie xie
Taiwan 3011

Mark Rothko paintings
Roxanne! Roxanne! Roxanne!
Empty libraries
Nashville with a tan

           Rockabye!

from the churches to the jails
      prisons produce wails
          hope desperately...

        to set the prisoners free.

The problem is
My two beloved teachers
Both believed in life after death
My mind just goes blank and stops

My father in the Air Force
St. Louis University
My wife born in Thailand
Sanuk Di! Krop Kun Kop.

My mom died in 2001
January 4th
Georgetown Hospice
Jesuit care

SJW
TDW
Help me endure.
Help me dare.

        Beware! Beware!

Got my mind on Pythagoras
Mathematical transmigration
37. 72.
Taipei 101

Haven't been to India
Do eat chana masala
Slumdog Millionaire
Light of a thousand suns

Vienna aglow in snow
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Almost like a fairy tale
I fly back to DC

Religions in other regions
Nothing is eternal
If I get my car
Nightdrive quietly

    South China Sea

I fear my own intensity
Help me dailiness
I have a need to fight
And a need to fly

O Life! Please protect my wife.
Help me dailiness
Be more practical
Battle back the lie

Glad to be in Maryland
Down on Main Street
Not far from Baltimore
I remember Life of Pi

Please let Alex see
Judi too as well
Ain't no tongue can tell
Purple goes the sky

         Ay! Ay! Ay!

Having trouble sleeping
O  dark thirty
Cpl. David Markson
Patrick Air Force Base

Mrs. Dewey's class
A.E. Houseman
By profession a professor of Latin
Contraria Sunt Complementa

Volkswagen bug
Surf Ohio
The University of the South
**** voice, pretty face

All Walls Fall
Mr. Gregory Hines
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Homecoming gown magenta

                Say you, Say me

amateur means one who loves
and that, I hope, is me

I want to drive again the Golden Gate
San Francisco for to see

then travel north in my Mustang
Seattle may well be

where I die, please kiss goodbye
my sons who number three

my ashes to the water
my soul to cosmic tree

will we ever meet again?
if so, oh ecstasy!

The Buddha preaches compassion
In this life, our misery

Boat on the Mekong River
Thailand, Land of the Free

One summer afternoon
Beauty Baltic Sea

Life is loneliness
Poetry: that's me


        Painfully

waiting for the Shinkansen , Tokyo station
Tube from Paddington, Oxford location
     Taipei to Kaohsiung, no hesitation
            Nightriding mystery lands
                    Transmigration

50 years I’ve roamed
50 years I’ve rambled

Tonight I’m not alone
But still my thoughts are scrambled

I use my old cell phone
Yesterday I ambled

We walk in seashell foam
Maybe aliens might Zamble?

It might be meaningless
Might be meaningless
Truly, it may well be

Will I get to her?
Will she get to me?

Are my words enough?
Enough to make her see?

Patience and persistence
Mother Mary: Let it be!

I don't get too far past the First Noble Truth
Though I know there are three more
Westley, the Man in Black
Is there an alien shore?

Death will be release
Say goodbye forever
Sting and the Police
The Rabbi of Krakow's hidden treasure

Never read Ted Hughes
But poetry comes from pain
Will they pity me?
Will she flee to Spain?

Not feeling well
I Walk the Line for Scott
The Italian love of beauty
Help me not fear to be not

                    Not.

We forward in this generation
Despite decay decline
The Age of Exoplanets
Vanilla with the 9

My son plays Magic the Gathering
I spend much time alone
I experience coincidence
I threw a Rolling Stone

At the edge of my sanity
Can feel Death bearing down
Everybody knows
I am the newsboy of this town

Never could forget her
Time is the Cross
Come as you are
Flowers in the Loss

              Roses!

abundant extraterrestrial water
her father a priest, she his daughter

do you think she will remember
what my little letter taught her?

The silence is eternal
Nothing truly lasts

The comfort is maternal
The heart breaks just like glass

So we have the pieces
And so we have the night

So we have the memories
The terror and the fright

Memory does flicker
No makeup on her face

I leave behind some words
Vanish without a trace

           The final frontier
                     Space.

In the mid 90s
Wrote to Jesuit Walter Ong
Baltimore in 46
Am I late along?

First day of school
Mr. Harry Wong
Taipei Confucian temple
Drums, robes, gong

Confucius at GMU
I say a prayer for Taiwan
Beauty Baltic Sea
Scifi Gamla Stan

Gunmetal gray
An email? Susansan.
Jokic throws the lob
Hither and anon

       2 bucks. 1 fawn.

Our politics mostly ridiculous
Sadness seeping sad
Despite disabilities
Try to be a good dad

Poe's chronic despair
It doesn't work out right
Richmond. Baltimore.
El Dorado flight

       The Baudelaire Orphans!

Last night's luna moon
This morning's garish sun

Guadalupe as I'm sitting
Green this motherly one

Have to fix my glasses
I am no James Joyce

Women with lovely *****
California's Josiah Royce

The Left Coast is quite curious
I lived in Santa Rosa

Reagan, Nixon, spurious
San Francisco knows ya

Balboa park all sunlit
Stuck in Lodi again

Tahoe sparling snowshine
Am I now a has been?

   California Dreaming
          Windmills
           muy bien.

GBS, if one were to see you, one would think there was a famine in England.

GKC, if one were to see you, one would think you were the cause of it.

Ridiculous, it's so.

Nevertheless: Sophia.

Geeky overthrow!

Probably I've written too much
But I can't seem to stop
On my way to the psych ward again
Handcuffed by the cop

Some of the police are racists
Some are real protectors
Many vote Republican
I'm in favor of defectors

Less religious in the hospitals
Adjust my meds and go
Thomas Jefferson came to Justify
Abraham Lincoln to Overthrow!

Dr. King studied in Boston
At Harvard Cornel West
Dr. Boykin Sanders at JMU
I did alright on his tests

     Hold your picture to my chest
                (and I feel fine)

Women are unkind.
They don't teach you this
In 9th grade biology
You have to learn it yourself

I was excited to see the temples
But it is actually the train station
That I remember from Kyoto
Finnish architects

Avoid the company of women
Counseled the Buddha
Still. Silent. Sitting.
Wise.

I also remember the jazz club in Tokyo
Rieko and Takahiro
Me sitting
Just one of the guys

              (I still tries)

Atheistic America
A hard sell but it's been done

Rey along the Way
Surely she's the one

I like Baltic beauty
I pet three stray cats

I like the Dark Knight
He knows the ways of bats

             Protection!

Christopher Hitchens was disgusting
So was Harold Bloom
So is Camille Paglia
****** up USA

Yale is not a whaling ship
But it does have lots of *******
December 26th
Quietude today

I love basketball
Music, movies, books
Twilight calls my name
For you I too will pray

America quite lost
I remember Stockholm
Took taxis throughout Bangkok
Worried for Taipei

             my my xie xie

My lifelong fear of being forgotten
I hear the silent night
I tremble. Yes, I tremble.
Avatar alight

Buddhamind in Bangkok
Seattle cedarsnow
Mabel Loomis Todd
Emily, Emilio

            Emily y yo

In the end we're nothing at all
We vanish like the wind
Dr. Thomas was my teacher
Thomas means the Twin
Mozart and Karl Barth
Pascal, but I grew thin
Now I'm 52
Vegetarian

       You have to lose to win.

It's a fairy tale so tragic
Ain't no prince to break the spell

But l love the music of Prince
Me, Todd Witherell

A product of the 80s
Big hair, MTV

Little red corvette
Florida florally

       Come see.

The nevers at the end of King Lear
And Elie Wiesel's harrowing Night
                          Fright.

The question which so haunted St. Augustine
And which Albert said he could never answer.

From whence comes evil?

wish we could turn back time
to the good old days

but it rolls right on
and for sins I pay

blue southern sky
for my family I pray

demons drive
but angels say

try again
fears allay

don’t give up
callooh callay!

Bruce speaks
of the long and endless sleep
I wish it wasn't so

Dreaming of the Deep
Ay yay yay yay yo!

Sickness is my lot
But so is cedar snow

I'm tired and I'm lonely
How much more to go?

Japanese snowbell, Mongolian yurt
    we walk and talk - no fear, no hurt
           the bell she rings, I become alert

                                   attention.

More than one life only
New York, the other side
Curious coincidence
Susan. Trappist 1.

Knoa in conversation
Navy. Air Force. Thomas More.
The need to battle back
SJ. Thy will be done.

After death discovered
Workin' on a mystery
Ambiguity
Maybe business for my son

Guadalupe green
The Buddha olive, brown
When Love Comes To Town
River Eden riverrun

              Sheep. Deer. Nun.

Nothing ventured, Nothing gained
Hit me at 15
Carolina blue
Irish eyes are green

She moves and Colorado
Patientia
Prayers in the night
I read Things Not Seen

Mystery and Coincidence
Let us rise and go hence
Ain't no border fence
Her thighs - I'm in between

Knocks
Clocks
Shocks
Ameen.

And his players go wild
Beat UConn
And make it to the Final Four



Mason Nation!

I dreamed of her just now
Said I know I'm mentally ill
But I do love you
She kissed me on my mouth

Dreams are fantasies
Illusions
Cannot be
Sing me way down South

                   Wendy!

Modi and Trump in Houston
Bear hug, but not too funny

Are Indians now like Republicans
Do they believe in nothing but money?

Will it ever happen?
If it does, I'll never know.

Dublin, Seattle, Charlotte
Softfall cedar snow

Shunyata, Emptiness
Train from Tokyo

Desafortunadamente
      Pero arigato.

Let me rest, Let me rest
I'm not a saint, but I do my best
Yangmingshan, not Everest

                   Climbing

not much
  solitude
      sad