Me and Madame Curie
    My Indian students to see
           Gifted, quite considerably
                        I tutor thus gratefully
  
               Best wishes to you from me.

talents and troubles
    obsessions and confessions
               kindness and weakness

    
          the philosophy of fatherhood.

I have no desire to be too contrarian
But it's time for humanity to go

                      vegetarian

his homeless feet were blistery
I tried to help a bit

the terror, indeed, of history
Eliade rightly noticed it

intensely my need for mystery
still present, hasn’t yet quit

Fr. Greeley leads me to fairie tree
stories, songs, Irish wit

Write about O, Brother
Urged my second son

A Man of Constant Sorrow
I obey this growing one

Ulysses Everett McGill
Always on the run

The glory of the music
The glaring southern sun

Saw it first in Charlottesville
Home of Mr. Jefferson

Don’t want an Empire of Liberty
Just democracy duly done

Still I wander in the Southland
Songs of heartbreak, hope, and fun

I pray down at the river
Pray my country gives up the guns.

me reading alone in the library
         at Seattle U. on my lunchbreak
                     slow walk back to the shelter
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David Markson.
Alone. Tired. Old. Broke. Sick.
But........... Selah. Selah. He gots you.


Amadare ishi o ugatsu.

Despondency, please let me be
Leave me as I sleep

Memory burdens me
See how I weep

The word is painfully made
A blunder from a master

Green eyes, Vincent. Me as well.
And I can see disaster.

                   Telecaster

unexpected is what she said
so I assume she had forgotten

in and out of my life
perhaps this fine frenzy thus begotten

did I make it that easy?
or was it destiny a-plottin’?

indeed the images
inside my mind just can’t be foughten

first love’s the clinging kind
sticks to the soul like candy cotton.

Beckett bridge in beauty
Book of Kells at Trinity
Young Irishman singing Guthrie
(“This machine kills fascists”)


Thanks a million to you from me!

At times it's soul depression
No hope at all
Memories of the Baltic Sea
River Eden, Wetheral

Bangkok at night
Thailand, Land of the Free
A kiss upon her breast
Tears quietly

At times mystic flight
Maybe one for the ages
Moby **** in Charlotte
I keep turning pages

              7 Sages

Black birds flying yesterday
Huskies on my walk
Zeph with puppy energy
The Cardinal gives his talk

Anguish for the animals
The Sacred and the snakes
The Eagle 106.9
The Tyger of William Blake

Nikki at the gas station
Chelsea, Chelsea twice
Arthur Edens in Milwaukee
I'm gonna roll the dice

Fr. Reginald Foster
Latinist to Popes
Timothy Dolan is hopeless
Amber is hidden hope

               USPS

Don't go directly at it
Wait. Let it come to you.
Help me dailiness
Help my hidden 2

The drama in my mind
But my life so ordinary
Silent monk in Bangkok
Asian eyes Mother Mary

Sometimes fear and trembling
Much I cannot see
I pass the ball to Alex
Tupac, Inca, 3

        God bless the Dead

In my solitude
But not, no not reclusive
Open to the others
Please not, no not abusive

Solitude is purposeful
The purpose to rejoin
One eye on Seattle
One eye on Des Moines

Two feet made for walking
The penny is my coin

             train tracks

Fog on the Golden Gate Bridge
Tidal pools in Monterrey
My boys still so young
xie xie xie xie xie xie

Fog on the Golden Gate Bridge
My life flies on by
My mom in Sacramento
Me and Scott and Ry

Don't like Jean Paul Sartre
Do like Albert Camus
Paris on my honeymoon
Sacre Coeur to view

Basketball at night
Please protect my dad
Please energy to persist
The Green Knight, Galahad

                  Castles!

The rectification of names
      music and language games
             overcoming shame …


               Mason Nation!

I wanna see Columbus fall
Columbus and Jefferson too
Despite despite despite
I still am JMU

Seattle has some totem poles
I remember a boy called Hok
History is often a nightmare
Prophets must provoke

Medicine Men are healers
Though wounded and within
Eagle feather feelers
Thomas means the Twin

Elvin Bad Boy Bishop
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Jo Jo left his home
In Tucson, Arizona

Gonna visit my mother's grave
Gonna place in Georgetown twice
South Side of Chicago
Ooo dat girl looked nice!

Mostly solitary
But the Logos is quite common
A little miso soup
Summer rolls y Ramen

           Astrobiology!

My postal poems
A lttle bit strange

Larry Bird
Danny Ainge

Celtic Cross
What remains?

Silences
Holy names

        Secrets.
        Flames.

Dr. Cohen calls Shakespeare's plays a gift
Surely he is right
Rene Thornton as Prospero
I launch the car into the night

Brutus is deluded
King Lear is a Fool
I am Cinna the Poet!
I taught at Sage Ridge School

God bless Garrison Keillor
And the Writer's Almanac
God bless Andy Samberg
And his snack attack

Desafortunadamente
My favorite Spanish word
Hope for la Gente
Wonder if she heard?

      Yo soy un Theonerd.

There's no sure way
To distinguish mysticism from madness
The priests pray for you
The psychiatrists give you lithium

Taipei was truthful
Little dragon temple
Excellent students
Delicious won ton soup

Some see synchronicity
Noncausal meaningfulness
The Dao's hidden depths
Coincidence y Coincidentia Oppositorum.

Dublin was pubs
And bus rides through town
Friendly faces at the post office
Trinity College. Alley Oop.

local, walking local
basketball in the park
Black family reunion
Missing my friend Mark

gratitude for work
X2 once again
New exomoons
San Francisco Zen

But local now for me
Mostly quiet little town
The Cremation of Sam McGee
Bball, Bobby Brown

Philology
Yes, I believe it so
One man in the forest
One man in Reno snow

               37 below

So we are alone? they asked
And the guru did reply

Yes, we’re alone, he said
All alone in this vasty cosmic sky

Are there others? they asked
And once again, the guru heard their cry

Yes, there are others, he said
they’re alone too, wherever they now sigh

A little happiness
My boys in joy at play

The need for gentle beauty
Within the USA

Chapel of the Cross
Silently I pray

Daoist hermitage
Silent is the Way

         xie xie

He called religion
An auratic saturated fragment
Puzzling that one.
But I do like to listen.

Grew up near Air Force bases
Near but not on
Sor Juana's mystic flight
And yes, I'd like a mission

Science fiction: where the Sacred goes to hide
Other worlds
Secret identities
The wisdom of the Other

Wounded healer
Protector who needs protection
Bipolar roller
Troubled brother

          Still miss my mother

I wish, I wish
But I wish in vain
She ain't gonna come
It remains the same

  Downbound Train!

The night has come
Shadows on my wall

Oxford, London, Wetheral


            Hey, Ya'll.

I tried to woo her back
Probably didn't work
Cool in the air
Happy Halloween

I like my Uncle Jack
Purdue and then Purdon't
Holy Toledo, Batman!
Billy Joel magazine

I pray for troubled ChiRaq
Giordano's pizza
Father Andrew Greeley
I sent Alex Things Not Seen

When anxiety attacks
Help me to go slowly
Fight through to the light view
3017

              Sacred Queen

In Staunton - Romeo
Me quiet, lights aglow
Juliet, does she know?
Eros and Thanos - one in woe

but her love is true (like Staunton snow).

Blaise and Ms. Pascal
            Betty call me Al
                    Mark, my oldest pal ...

                                Wagering!

It doesn't end in exaltation
Hospitals and jail
****** little motel room
Howling inner wail

I rewatch Michael Clayton
Remember you, Roxanne
Rainy Night in Georgia
Stick it to the Man!

My boring little life
But bball with my son
Twilight taxi nights
Comin' home from 101

        un pequito fun

ugly, obscene, *******
the madness monster within

also pure, holy, spiritual
Beauty, the Beast’s better twin

Proclivities primal and private
Against which I never can win

And yearnings loving and lofty
Disappear to begin yet again

It’s true I’m a bipolar roller
My blessing and also my curse

I’ve known madness and my better angels
the good, the mystery, the worst

I struggle now for the Hopepunk
Grimdark in the White House decaying

Bard once more lets fly the black arrow
As this American Dragon needs slaying.

just notice when it shows
don’t know what it means

like I notice when it snows
and when she wears the tight blue jeans

I like Emilio
and his father, Martin Sheen

Acocalypse even now?
haven’t you heard or seen?

Sangha Tea
NASA shirt

Synchronicity
UFO alerts

Childhood memory
Ernie and Bert

Bangkok malls
Mongolian yurts

Taipei 101
Daoist dirt

Key to the Universe?
Old parked car

                     Please insert.

Detroit's Fox Theater
Lookin' for my Luisa
              Snow

an essay tonight about dog parks
peaceful. happiness.

i miss my oldest son
distances distress

rode the bus through town
post card to Japan

Rieko, she's a wonder
Takahiro is her man

Sophia, in Tokyo,
I try to do the best I can.

The American Abyss
2024
1 Thai tea
2 Thai ******

Shenandoah Shakespeare
Have I been here before?
Quaint and Curious
Tales of forgotten lore

My son in Annapolis
Me in Baltimore
1137
4044

The rich get richer
Please protect the poor
Shots ring out
Ocean's pounding roar

            In the Midnight Hour:
         She cried more, more, more!

Blowin' in the wind
Then 9:37

Long ago in Florida
My basketball friend Kevin

Watch with her favorite movies
'Twould be very heaven

Ichiro Suzuki
Bert "be home" Blyleven

             Play ball!

Angkor Wat in photos
   Visions of Vishnu
          fantasia!

He don't believe that Heaven waits
For only those that congregate
She don't believe in Heaven.

I'm tired and bored and lonely
1137

Why keep writing?
Not much else to do

Siena Cathedral
Pondicherry Zoo

Took some risks
In 2022

Did it work?
Not yet through

     two clues

Even when I know it's meaningless
I just cannot accept it

The fight remains inside me
I go down, but go down swinging

Death is like an old paperboy
He comes ah! to collect it

I meet him on the porch
But his paper I am flinging

            Sacramento No!

I'm gonna lose my memories
But will I be remembered?
I promise I will let you in
When I'm soul Septembered

She sits in the bleachers
A little to my right
We talk in her dorm room
Her wedding, then moonlight

Exoplanets spin
Extrasolar water
I have 3 sons
She has 2 daughters

I've been desperately seeking
I remember JMU
5 minutes in Denver
Eternity be true

                I love you.

The music has to be right
So the punishments will be right.
That's what Confucius believed
I stop by Mason Nation
I am very well received

JMU is purple and gold
For me, Albert Camus
Chicago is Maroon
I'm also Carolina blue
She's UNCW

           American Cosmic!

Not to take the fight to the enemy
Rather, to experiment
Placements, provocations

Plurality y Ambiguity
Mysterium Tremendum
Leading conversations

Slowly guacamole
Shabu Shabu
Destinations

Long term view
Patientia
Revelations?

One foot in popular culture
Music, movies, YouTube, cars
One in universities
3 hands 4 this love that we call ours

Trains are more communal
Thomas Aquinas the Common Doctor
PSAT at Robinson
I volunteer to proctor

Women in their 50s
The best middle school English teachers
Withit-ness is what they have
Picollo players under the bleachers

He is a Travelin' Soldier
They are the Dixie Chicks
Charleston at night
3037, not 1776

       Meet me at Moby ****'s.

72 microseasons
Nippon summer nights
Rieko y Takahiro
101 in lights

Kobayashi Issa
Born on June 15
Slowly, snail, slowly
Irish eyes are green

   Arigato, Susan Darlene...

Iranian women uncover their hair
I eat lunch at Moby ****
Awakening is becoming aware
All Walls Fall, even the thick

Persepolis is a good graphic novel
The Mosque of Colors in Shiraz amazes
Moby **** has delicious hummus
Revolutions proceed in stages

You are not a drop in the ocean
You are the entire Ocean in a single drop
Rumi reverses the Buddhists
Mr. Rumi - Krop Kun Kop

In Thailand motorcycle taxis
I would like to read more of Buddhadasa
Saw the Dalai Lama in Seattle
I am ambivalent: will he defend Lhasa?

                  Ferry boats!

Arrogant American women
Shy and geeky men
California sun
San Francisco Zen

A little basketball
Scifi does pretend
She's my enemy
Do I have a friend?

            Wends.

Almost no influence at all
Ain't gonna be no Mayor
What I really want is her
And to be a good basketball player

Nevada has the desert
Big blue sky and brown
Went to a rodeo once
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

I like the Dixie Chicks
Travelin' Soldier quite profound
David Markson Si!
Struck out Ezra Pound

Volleyball is a great game
And I would play for Christopher Pike
In Dublin an Irish Setter
Bump. Set. Spike!

                    Wendy's great.
                  You're right, Mike.