If it's eternal sleep
Do we still somehow dream?
University of Chicago
I do want you on my team

Don't remember much of Paris
Do remember Gamla Stan
Scifi bookstore
Avoid the wrath of Khan

Walnut Heights, Ohio
Frank's pizzeria
Mayberry Elementary School
Almost I can see ya

Snow Falling on Cedars
And in my lonely mind
Her smile is such comfort
I wanna travel blind

                 Find?

Protection from the worst
In myself and others
Even at this late date
Boston. Bball. Brothers.

One brief life
3 young sons
7 Spanish Angels
Give up your guns

Deer appear today
Beauty in the grass
St. James Cathedral
Seattle contemplative Mass

               Snowfall Shunyata
           She was a grand wee lass ...

the depths of American fear
   foolish as King Lear
       silently, I hear

Why do i keep writing, John?
Better out than in
Yes, i think you're right
But why did i begin?

It's true i had the dream
True i tried to teach
True i know the Vertigo
True i kissed her at the beach

i think of you, dear reader
my phone, your distant eyes
expect the unexpectable
are aliens in skies?

                   i tries.

Deer in my family's neighborhood
Walking. I Thai wai.
Stillness and attention
Purple gonna go the sky

I am a taxi service
Which is ok by me
1837
3773

I live on Main Street now
Basketball in the park
I have a VisionQuest
I miss my friend Mark

      The Draw of the Dark

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

David Markson
This is Not a Novel and Other Novels

I'm gonna walk the way of dailiness
Step by step by slow
The time will come to fly
A Raven told me so

I play the long term game
I run the distance race
I sail the cosmic sea
The Vatican sails space

I'm drawn to 17
I eat in Irish bars
Sauerkraut and broccoli
This love that we call ours

She's beautiful, intelligent
Exomoons with water
Young sons sung
Denver Daoist Daughters

          Sweet Surrender!

like the early aware Venetians
I'd like to hide away

place a bet for beauty
quietly not today

the future for my sons
against America Xie Xie

water wisdom waiting
aha! callooh. callay.

John Updike and Galaxy Quest
Like Rabbit Angstrom, I’m often a mess

But I also love basketball
And yearn to be a Knight of Faith after all

My father was a pilot
I too can fly

Help me stick the landing
My myself and I

Look out for my crew
Provide the wise supplies

Best that I can do
Eyes Thais on the prize

Darkness. Sunrise.

Job interviews all morning
I am tired, so I retire

I leave the hotel
And runwalk through
15 below windchill
To the little restaurant
My face stings as I run

Quiet conversation
With the lovely waitress

Steam rises from my shabu shabu
                    And vanishes

I take the taxi
To the museum of fine arts
To view the portraits
Of John Singer Sargent
(Yes, Catteleya, they are beautiful indeed)

Late in the evening
I begin my winterwalk home

But first I stand outside
The museum
For 37 seconds in silence

And I Appeal to the Great Spirit.

George Will:  Don Delillo's book is an act of bad citizenship.
                        He blames America for producing
                        Lee Harvey Oswald.

Don Delillo:  I don't blame America for producing Lee Harvey
                       Oswald.  I blame America for producing George Will.

Just a dream
Don't come true
In reality
A delusion

I wish them well
Truly do
I alone
My confusion

Back to sleep
Eternity
Sleep
But never waken

Time is the Cross
Simone Weil
Vive la France!
Unforsaken

Poetry: Makin'.

I'm 51 years old
Since 5 a true page turner

Nearly twenty years a teacher
That's how I was an earner

Now I'm unemployed
But inside I'm still a yearner

Please, dear God, O please!
Make me a lovelight learner!

There's terror in this world
And it all ends in death
I like exoplanets
Don't do crystal ****

I might be demented
Don't have no cousin Seth
3:53
Still grateful for my breath?

                         Yeth.

Jolene Jolene Jolene Jolene
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Jolene Jolene Jolene Jolene
Please don't take him just because you can

Your beauty is beyond compare
With flaming locks of auburn hair
Ivory skin and eyes of emerald green
Your smile is like the breath of spring
Your voice is like the summer rain
And I cannot compete with you Jolene.

Me: She has one blue eye and one grey eye. I've never seen that except in Huskies before.
Cool!

Her: Yes. That's why I named her Harvey. Like Harvey Dent in Batman.

Me: The Dark Knight? That movie had a big impact on me.

Her boyfriend: Me too.

The Guardian is good
London overwhelming

Oxford's twilight beauty
Wetheral: no telling

Flew back then to Dublin
A bit later to Seattle

Now I sleep all day
No job, no hope, no battle

          waiting.

Notices Diane Ackerman

Appearance and Reality
Help me tust in Your mentalty
I am broken, not whole.
Please have mercy on my poor soul.

                       Amen

Things forbidden
Often become obsessions

Hence to her
My soul confessions

I need help
I have aggressions

Listening lonesome
Taking lessons

I don't like George F. Will
Lifelong American racist ray
A beautiful mind is a lifelong thrill
My sons callooh! callay!

Moroccan mint tea, A.P. Hill
San Francisco Zen
Zen Center still is silent still
3710

Never been to whipporwill
Been to San Anton
Dr. Thomas, first name Bill
The Green Flash found in Rome

I said to her if looks could ****
George Will would be quite dead
Hummingbirds near my windowsill
Wonder where I'll be led?

                     Tecumseh!

She says I'm an interesting soul
That gets my attention
Kyoto to Tokyo
New York City night

Tacos for lunch today
Soda lemonade
Salsa on my chips
Sor Juana's mystic flight

Quiet desperation
Lonely as the rain
In my solitude
Abgescheidenheit

The Catholic church has damaged me
The guilt is not much fun

But it also gives me gifts
Mystical mystery ones

St. Stephansdom in Vienna
All aglow in snow

Sacre Couer in gay Paris
White in flight I go

                 Green Arrow.

Not intentionally obscurity
Remembering, Searching
Traveling in my mind
Farewell and be kind

Places still persist
The plot begins to twist
Flowers on her wrist
Kids huddled in the mist

Taiwan when I was 2
Fairfax at 34
1001 Nights
Still reading of Thomas More

London in the night
Things won't work out right
One night's insight's delights
Brown melds black and white

               Harper's Ferry

mysticism and terror
      dread fear that life’s an error
             with me she sees a secret sharer ...

                                 vulnerable

Become what you receive
Says the young Franciscan friar

I devour bread and wine
Pray they take me higher

Pope Francis speaks much truth
Donald Trump’s a liar

I seek not fame and fortune
Dearness my desire

According to Mircea Eliade

So my talents might be discovered
But then my sins and freakouts too
I'm afraid of attention
Reno Rendezvous

I keep on writing
A need. A hope. A view.
I wish she would show
A wish that don't come true?

                     22

grateful for good sleep
I wake; it's 9:37

If Paradise is a library
Don Quixote is in heaven

Saw Man of La Mancha on Broadway
On Good Friday night

Brian Stokes Mitchell
Sings away the fright

If Paradise is an Impossible concert
Will we be alright?

We die. That may be the meaning of our lives.

We use language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Said Toni Morrison.

Women as they actually are
Which ain't very pretty
Stockholm in the summer
Such a pretty city

The Dark Knight in Chicago
Silent Guardian. Protects.
Dying Catholic Church
In silence genuflects

Hungarians in Vienna
St. Stephansdom in snow
Vegetarian sausage
Hidey hidey hidey **!

Lord Shiva the Destroyer
Exoplanet star
Travel all 10000 miles
Take off in my car

       Astrobiology. El Mar!

Coach Katz in Sacramento
Dr. Thomas in Harrisonburg
Father Greeley in Chicago

                    Gracias!

Yes, I do like Georgetown
Grey stone on grey sky
Grey catholikos
Mother Mary My

I remember Uncle Marty
My mother's last breath
3772
Long past death

African American students
Give me a gentle smile
The Amazing Spider-Man
I wander for a while

Chapel closed for cleaning
Divergent are my books
Father Greeley Ben Vereening
Quinlin Jai - he cooks!

                   Fettuccini!

clouds again climb high
           still I stroll - shy guy
                   no answer to my Why?

Am I afraid to die?
Yes indeed I am
Gonna watch A Man Called Otto
Once I was a Robinson Ram

Never right without the woman
But I Rome alone
New big green couch
Old little black cell phone

Tolkien was a philologist
That's a word I like
Three great secret things
Novels of John Updike

Some say great talent ripens late
I read the Dao De Ching
Try to know when to stop
Know when to shake that thing

              Tsai. Wong. Ling.

I've lost the will to live
But still I linger on

The deer at the Episcopal church
In the clearing at night the fawn

Seattle blue twilight
Seattle white the dawn

I'm tired, very tired
Was a woman often anon.?

https://youtu.be/U9oTBA-MvZk

Posterity is for the philosopher
What the Other World is for religion

So thought Diderot
With his encyclopedic vision

But surely the future is foreign
even a country undiscovered

And the Other World, if such exists,
also touches ours when uncovered

another world to live in
si, es verdad, Mr. Santayana

Everyone living seeks it
atheists, believers, both Madonnas

See the Broken Grace of Leonard Cohen
Published by Sightings
At the University of Chicago Divinity School

Good on race
Bad on ***
Haunted by
My ex and ex

54
What comes next?
Ending of Embers
Genuflects

Minestrone soup
Rainy day women
Pondicherry Zoo
Silent swimmin'

Work today
Pay down my bill
Young sons sung
Gone the thrill

       dailiness....

I have no desire to give lectures or sermons
No desire to give speeches
Politicians as celebrities
Followers like leeches

Religion mostly bad for me
But I like those minarets
Went to church with her just one time
Misty, but didn't forget

America is ignorance
Empire. Racehate. Nukes.
Russia is Putin
Violence against the Ukes

Pushkin's power in The Prophet
Fingers light as dream
Rabbi Nahman leaves Jerusalem
Finds the Silent Scream

                  Agonia

My Letter to You
Bounce passes for my team
Break the press
Silent scream

Dailiness
Much time alone
No computer
Little black cell phone

Dailiness
Taxi train
Tragedy?
Purple Rain

Dailiness
Mustard seeds
Mystery
Indeed. Indeed.

     Take heed.

With the Light comes the Shadow
Dark and cold and lonely
Gandalf the White
Frodo goes forth groanly

I'm on the Dublin bus
Young couple speaking French
Judi Kemerait
Dame Judi Dench

Am I an Irish rebel?
In my bipolar mind
Spoke of Bobby Sands
I wanna travel blind

1989
I play Rattle and Hum
1992
Father Greeley where I come from

                        The Angel!

Fr. Greeley insisted
Jesus wasn't humble; he was tough
Help me fight on
Even when I have feelings
That I'm not good enough

And let me call their bluff.

My friend Bob is a Unitarian
As was my Grandaddy Brown
As is my cousin Natalie
Take a look around

I too believe in oneness
I do, Ave Maria
2 beautiful women
I would like to be ya

             Oneness
                 3 ya.

The saints have their own country
Oui, Monsieur Pascal
Stranger Than Fiction
Fox theater in Detroit

Born in Santa Rosa
Also born at home
Very California
My boy's gonna rock this joint

Quiet conversations
Libraries and coffee shops
Vienna aglow in snow
Jesus to Anoint

Ludwig Wittgenstein
A little time in Dublin
To pass over in silence
Eliot at the still point

             Dancing