3 days in Vienna
All that beautiful snow
Yo soy un theonerd
I'm no Romeo

Got a monk in me
Yo silencio
Unknowable is God
And I love her so

             Reno!

I'll leave behind these poems
Will anybody read them?
Such sadness inside me
Sadness and regret

Falafel wrap for dinner
Middle Eastern music
3 prayers for Gaza
Please do not forget

               Not yet.

Flush, anew the story begins
   The Green Flash of Carl Hiaasen
               For the Mighty Quin!

I experience coincidence
Kinda weird at times
The doc says it's nothing
Everybody has 'em

Jung says synchronicity
Noncausal meaningfulness
Due to Unus Mundus
Mysticism is real

Some say apophenia
The mind in desperation
Tryin' to make connection
Tryin' to make sense

I say I don't know
But I wait for it to happen
My departed Uncle Marty
At times I almost feel

              Dharma Wheel

Prayers for protection
   Brigid in the rain
         mi familia

It's a meaningless world. I know it is.
Still I do fight on.

Beckett Bridge, Gamla Stan
My 2 friends named John

I've been going postal
My weapons are won words

Albert Camus, I pray to you
The saint of the Absurd

                Rebellion!

There's no essential difference
Between sanity and insanity
Consciousness is painfulness
At night I walk the floor

          Inner Harbor, Baltimore

searching for an apartment
       sensing solitude
       bookstore blues ...

seeking seed, I read in need.

Aiden and my time with the Irish
       quietly trying to find fish
              Bernie is my wish!

Madison and Mason si
But Qualyxian the Quest
Rendezvous with Destiny
Gonna do my level best

Xiao gives me Chinese food
I say xie xie ni
Mr. Bill Porter
Fo Guang Shan to see

Lunch at Cinco de Mayo
Alex in Tucson
What the hell's a Hoya?
We in Gamla Stan

Mason in the CAA
Colonial Assassination Association
On my knees to pray
Plus a little echolocation

         Mr. Wayne: Good luck.

Nothingness haunts being
It's true, Jean Paul, so true

But I choose to rebel
And I prefer Camus

Monsieur Mauriac was an artist
God may be one too

I went to Paris onmy honeymoon
C'est Magnifique!
                        Merci beaucoup.

Ambiguous and Ambivalent
No way to avoid
Human, all too human
Bipolar and paranoid

But also truly trying
Also wisdom wish
Sor Juana mystic flying
Also flying fish

I'm prepared to wait for centuries
To wait with Thich Nhat Hanh
I too traveled in Thailand
Saw the Temple of the Dawn

Touch the past, Touch the future
Touch the Tyger, Touch the sin
Touch the trust, Touch the fear
Touch must lose to win

           Thomas the Twin

Father Greeley was so unique
Never seen another priest like him

If you play with Irish setters
You can surely spike 'em

Me near the Book of Kells
Quite far from Chicago

I mentioned him to the man
Mystery? Now they know

                  Overthrow!

Kathryn Orr
     1984

Adios, Senyor

Just an amateur
I don't write for money
Ben Shapiro is a racist
Steve Martin is funny

Very little influence
Almost none at all
Took the train from London
River Eden, Wetheral

                 Hey, y'all!

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Is really good for Art
Just ask Claude Monet
Not Napolean Blown Apart

I went to Giverny
Gave the garden Cary's ashes
When she wore no makeup
O God! Those eyelashes

Dublin, Wendy Darling
Gethsemani Trappist Abbey
Episcopal is Catholic Lite
Not too shabby!!!

         Long live Mr. Keating...

May my solitude improve
              the raven and the dove
                          my dearness ones...



                                        love.

Sandy, the math teacher,
dies in Taiwan

I find a few books
time travels on

Yes, Virginia
No need for Saigon

Cliff Pickover
Wonder-a-thon

One foot over the line
She said: Please stop
So I step back

I was trying to give her ammo
To fight back their attack

I am a troubled soul
With women out of whack

But she is something special
Eyes of blue
Hair of black

                   Denver track

I don't have it all figured out
I write because ....    must
I shared many things with her
Does she does she trust?

Struggle with self doubt
Struggle with love and lust
The fear but then the deer
Just the three of us

Gonna help my brother Scott
But it might take some time
Tuna salad sandwich
Cranberry juice with lime

Taoists in the mountains
I read the Tao De Ching
Mr. Glen Campbell
He could surely sing

            Cabeza de Vaca

            Galveston brings ...

..............Reno sky............
Black smoke billowing
          Aye! Aye! Aye!

Evil tends to triumph in this world
George W. Nixon Trump ****** Stalin Mao
Everybody dies
Nothingness forever

I took her to a dance
Pretty brown hair
Kissed her once or twice
Sacramento Heather

There is no Dulcinea
She's made of flame and air
San Francisco, California
Exploritorium

To each his Dulcinea
Before the Meek inherit
I've learned to hate myself
Maranatha. Come, Lord Jesus.

                   Come!

Pure Prarie League in the pizzeria
    soothing my spirit, yes I need ya
      band plays, I sing - try to please ya
      

  drive home in the dark, stars above
            I too keep falling in and out of love

Often I pray more for than to
Worried for my family
Wishing for my friends
Afraid

Politics portends
America could again go deeply wrong
Somebody done somebody wrong song
Tirade

The Hobbit and Poe on my shelf
The fighting knives of Legolas the Elf
Satellite Beach
Not Miami Dade

Grateful for quiet
Conversations
Board games
Magic played

              Nat turner: flayed.

I saw some things in Thailand
Taxis, temples, Tai Chi
Hopeful for the future
Thailand sees my three

Heard some things in Dublin
Rebels, readers, French
Rode the bus through town
Beckett was a mensch

Knew some things in Charlotte
Eliade, Maggie's Farm
Uptown Charlotte night
Midnight Special warm

Threw some things at Chicago
Threw a Rolling Stone
Grew some things on the South Side
All roads lead to Rome

      Rickey Henderson: safe at home.

Wilmington willing?
           the cosmic is thrilling
                        Berkeley instilling ...


                            perceived?

Hagrid's recognition
You're a wizard, Harry!

Silent benediction
Mystery not scary

Hogwarts maybe one day
Professor Jacob Von Hogflume

Train to Paddington Station
Oxford, Flaming June

(hope to see you soon!)

David Markson
The Notecard Quartet

Sometimes it"s better
When we don't get to touch our dreams
Rainin' hard in Frisco
Wildman Wizard inside me

No sexuality in the Lord of the Rings
Gandalf the Grey turns White
12:22
I'm awake again in the night

Women as they really are
Cruel and selfish and pretty
Stockholm in the summer
Such a pretty city!

A wiser and a sadder man
53 and falling
Little Sage Ridge School
I hear London Calling

               Come out!

The Borg believe resistance is futile
Ann Coulter does as well

But they absorb and spew forth hate
And they can go to Hell

Mr. Spock lives wisdom higher
Robin Williams too

The comedian an Episcopalian
The Vulcan star a Jew

I learned from both while growing up
though a Catholic boy was I

Both resisted in their way
I was moved when both did die

I’d like to teach like Mr. Keating
For Dead Poets he should’ve won an Oscar

And the heartbreak beauty final tweet
In memory - Live Long and Prosper

three tragedies and a satyr play
i wake up in the night

her hair is black; her eyes are blue
my beard keeps turning white

there's music in the unconscious
i hear it in my dreams

Leejay basketball singing
my longlost teenage teams

before Greece: Florida
before peace: screams.

the story of America
is not freedom but race

Melville was right
to condemn this hypocritical place

if nuclear holocaust
leaves no truth or trace

say I lived here lonely
but better yet-

she had a long lost lovely face.

I am a taxi service
And I kinda like it
Meet my children's friends
Get everyone safely home

I liked Siena Cathedral
Fettuccini Alfredo
Bruschetta, pasta, olives
Honeymoon in Rome

Coincidentia Oppositorum
Neils Bohr, Nicolus of Cusa
God as Not Other
Stately pleasure dome

Prayers for Cornel West
Viva Sacramento!
Mark, Ernest, Jerrod
Ohm mane padme ohm

         Moby **** tome

I wear no religious clothes
No robes or black suit for me
Tshirts, sweats, hoodies
3773

Dino in the bar tonight
Hang down your head and cry
Lyin' back in her satin dress
Poor boy you're bound to die

Mayberry elementary school
Walnut Heights, Ohio
4988 Carbondale Drive
Allah da me o my o

Derek and Susan Lindsay
Empty Diamond, yearbook class
You'll know you're alive up there
She was a grand wee lass

             St. James Cathedral
                       Seattle
             Contemplative Mass

awake at 3 a.m.
thinking of Fr. Greeley

I pray to my beloved Dead
silently and freely

vocations are often hidden
questing Cosmic Treely

for courage unto the end
She’s the One and really

I see the sacred terror
Heathens take it slow

Facebook is not error
Sledding Reno snow

Soon the little stamps
Sanchez (Emilio)

Sleep, the night is light
Planetario

             still don't know

According to David Bowie
The Internet is an alien life form

Greetings earthlings and cosmonauts
Is your spinning planet warm?

Don’t believe in Modern Love
But I do seek shelter from the storm

I come from American Cosmic
I seek communion and to warn

Inner Harbor, Baltimore
               4044
          Un Escritor

I was raised Catholic
It's the only religion
I ever really practiced
But I have been drawn and drawn -
Time tick tocks on -
To the Buddha
Sitting in silence

Knowing.

Prayers for Taiwan
I stop by the Confucius statue at GMU
Protection!

2 copies of Road to Heaven by Red Pine
Waiting for me at the bookstore
For those who walk the Path of Solitude

Am I an egg?
White on the outside
But yellow on the inside

Or am I brown?
Like my momma Sally Jane

I've got a bipolar brain
Livin' la vida La Mancha, Spain
Ridin' a Downbound Train
Poetry: Good Insane

  Kamakura Buddha in Purple Rain

I admit
I find The Batman very inspiring
Vigilant in the Night
Gotham's true protector

Roommate in Hong Kong
Wedding in Japan
Wedding in Tel Aviv
Can I resurrect her?

Still some coincidence
Reading Richard Rodriguez
Coach Brian Katz
Sacramento Heather

Waiting. Watching. Wishing.
A few experiments
Long term game
Follow the wind and the weather

                       Denver!

Near the Abyss and waiting
Maybe to fall in

Janey had a baby
Wasn't any sin

No need for mental maps
I follow the Western Wind

Book of Kells, Witherells
Long live dear Dublin!

So shy, so shy
Even at 51

I don't like crowds
Except rock concert ones

Well, sometimes I like train stations
I like to ride those rails

It might be biochemistry
But today the pain prevails

               Each entails ...

We gather around the pickup truck
Hablo un pequito Espanol

We listen to each other
Cerveza rocks and rolls

I walk alone in darkness
I discuss Mayan zero

I want to be a fighter
But I surely ain't no hero

Viva Guatemala! Viva Mexico!
Thank you, mis amigos. Onward we now go.

The critics don't really understand
You can't translate the poetry into prose
And so it goes
And so it goes

I wrote to Daniel Berrigan
Seattle, JVC
He kindly wrote me back
A good way said he to me

I hope that he was right
In Berkeley Thich Nhat Hanh
Buddhamind in Bangkok
Sunlight Gamla Stan

I do pray to the statues
Do not now attend Mass
Must be women priests
Thus it comes to pass

       Suzy Sassafrass

All the sadness sits and hits
She's not here, kiss my grits
Grey day blues, gentle rain
Facebook Tooks, Purple plains

               Forever Fame?