Pythagoras of Samos
You are on my mind
A little transmigration
Farewell and be kind

3 days in Vienna
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I play language games
Wanna travel blind

Abraham Abulafia
Abraham Isaac Kook
Met her at 16
Never could quite shook

Soren and Regine
Heloise and Abelard
Bob and Charlotte in Tokyo
My dad in my front yard

        Play the Face card

The next step
Not the first step.
Not the last step.

Please let me heed Amber's advice.

Let me listen and practice.

Secularity. Organizing my room. Calling family. Walking. Basketball.

Not mystic flight.

Steps.

Hannah in Arrival
Stanley Yelnats in Holes
Bob by Weird Al

       Mom!

Nothing supernatural
Nightride downbound train

If love is ever actual
She rides in Purple Rain

Rides to Helsinki harbor
White cathedral, green the dome

The boat leaves for distant Asia
I leave my hidden home

                      I roam.

At times I can see quite far ahead
But much is also dark
In Georgia Dr. Livingston
In Sacramento Mark

By Grabthar's Hammer
Agatha, Arthur, and Dash
We climb aboard their starship
The Captain is Johnny Cash

Mr. David Markson
Que Selah Selah
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Bright wings sings and ah!

When the Night is cloudy
I'm helped by two green lights
She sees me in the dawning
Gonna be some fights

               Mystic Flights

The peace does come
But it comes slow
And after suffering

When it comes
I'm grateful
My cell phone too does ring

Sunshine today
Big blue sky
Green trees, swimming pool

My sons away
My brothers too
I miss Sage Ridge School

                   Reno!

Life is suffering
The Buddha taught
This is indeed a Noble Truth

The bipolar came at 24
Still sort of in my youth

I do not complain
It's taught me much
But I hope one day to rest

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
But Taipei is my old nest

My son there born
Our family blessed

West is East
East is West

love is my religion
Bob Marley in the store

makes me dream the ocean
sunlight near the shore

trouble and confusion
these last years that number four

to love and work and wonder now
the coincidences - will there be more?

Was in Toronto once
Three or four days
The University
2 Blue Jays games

I remember Korean drummers
Yonge Street hotel
Good food
CN Tower

I soon turn 54
Exoplanets
Coincidences
Names

Dread Annihilation
Missing my mom
Remembering prom
Hope for the Flowers

            El Futuro!

The darkness has a purpose to serve
I seek the Sacred Heart

And the truth is evil
I shoot my poison dart

Sallyport in county jail
That's where legends start

Silently I must prevail
Silence is an art

             Luna!

Why do I trust the Buddha?
I'm in favor of desire
In favor of fighting
In the snow the Fire

Taiwan as a child
Again as an adult
Late night Bangkok temple
Silence amidst tumult

Thich Nhat Hanh in Berkeley
And at Mason Nation
I walk the empty Diamond
Bipolar elevation

Kamakura Buddha
My Thai mother in law
Tuk Tuk in the traffic
Horton hears I saw

           Krop Kun Kop.

when I travelled in Taiwan
I often took the train
I remember the typhoons
relentless was the rain

passed and prayed a dragon temple
daily on my way to school
the students most respectful
my sons a-swimming in the pool

Taiwan an island in the ocean
some say the South China Sea
The Buddha and Confucius protect the people
Asian islands inside me.

Monterrey Bay
    tidal pools
       Calyx

There's no real happiness
Or when it comes, it slips away

Life is misery
Today is a grey day

I walk the train tracks
My sons:  Callooh! Callay!

Rain came down came rain
I came down hey hey!

For her this night. For her.
And all I cannot know

Give her North and South
Let her tulips grow

Give her krop kun ka
No Pinnochio

Give her Toledo, Spain
Give her I don't know

            Give her yo.
          Please El Padrino.

According to David Markson

Dr. Cohen in Staunton
Shakespeare in the snow
Doin' it with the lights on
Down 81 I go

Loveliness the benches
Rene Thornton as Prospero
Play on! Play on! Play on!
Juliet -  your Romeo.

I keep writing because I ...
Nothin' else to do
In my solitude
I still remember U

                 3772

Nikola Jokic: greatness!
Denver Mile High

She also lives in Denver
But I'm not her kind of guy

Went to see her once
To Denver I did fly

5 minutes to talk
Then time to say goodbye

      still I sigh.

Says Colossians 3:3

I know I am ridiculous
My wish for mystery too

Ordinary history
Troubled Kalamazoo

But here we are alive
Threats abound. They do.

How to help us thrive?
Existence and the mu

   Horton Hears a Who?

Fantasies still female
But experience an Abyss

La Florida in Fall
Long ago first kiss

Just to be held and holy
Tears, idle tears

In the bath for hours
Drifting toward my fears

     No more King Lears!

trawling Atlantis, Nantucket bound
      Diotima a mantis, Socratic soul found
             I’d go the whole wide world!
              (which people say is round)

                             Just to find Her!

Desantis is Disgusting
And American to the core
Florida is thunderstorms
Hamlet is Elsinore

Salvador Dali Museum
Carl Hiaasen books
The Republican Party in my lifetime
Ignoramuses and crooks

Nagarjuna sits
Shoots down all his foes
Astrobiology
Maybe UFOs

I, Robot today
Lake Michigan attack
George W. should be banished
And strung up in Iraq

               Hackysack!

So much so much so much self doubt
Panicky fear fear fear
But courage going forward
Whisper in my ear

Do the best I can
The best I can and trust
Not just me and 3
Also me and us

The pain that living brings
The comfort of blue sky blue
My need for silence at times
And my need for you

             Pondicherry Zoo

There's no life after death
Rain came down came rain
One for Toledo, Ohio
One for Toledo, Spain

Tired, boredinary
Can't get no relief
Milwaukee Bucks
Sydney Moncrief

Grey, rainy, misty
Fog in my mind
Wabash Cannonball
I hope you treat me kind

               I'm ....

St. Thomas More
Oxford, 1492

Cristobal Colonizer
We're comin' after you!

By virtue of the Absurd
The Knight of Faith, in this life,
Gets what he desires

Therefore, in fear and trembling,
I place my fantasies
Before the Fire

The sadness strikes
Gotta lie down
Sky goes blue to black

Windy. Cold.
Yellow fade yearning
Dune is like Iraq

Solitude is peaceful
Lonely as the rain

For Eric Alterman
Slip Sliding Away to Spain

           Y Purple Rain

Obsessions, Ishmael
I have them deep and long
Obsessions and confessions
I showed her sacred songs
Obsessions from the past
Obsessions about ***
Eyes closed, mouth open
Her hair long past her neck
Obsessions about a woman
And what might have been
Obsessions gone to poetry
Is she still my friend?
Obsessions


               Which never end...

sleeping late, white light room
      myths from dreams from lotus bloom?
                   incense, intense her perfume ...


                                 who looms?

David Markson
The Notecard Quartet

You have to resist the loftiness
Until it overwhelms
Precogs reading books
Ending Minority Reports

No scorn for the ordinary
The Shire eats in peace
Frodo leaves at 50
Sam does not abort

I'm with Tolkien on the Shadow
Have to send it back
Serve the Secret Flame
You shall not pass!

Must be women priests
Must be trust be once
Jesus was a sailor
Seattle contemplative Mass

        Thus it came to pass

small things, the little way
a contribution here to stay
a lifetime's love in time today

                  helpfulness

Entertainment is the thing
We'll strive to please you every day

Shakespeare in Staunton
101 in yon Taipei

Hidden Daoist hermits
Following the Way

Rock n' roll mystery music
The way adult Americans play

Poetry means making
But what do we create?

Not like other words
Not like my mean mate

A bit like oolong tea
A bit like cedarsnow
A bit like Get Up, Stand Up
Yoko yo yo yo yo!

               On we go.

I love 10,000 Maniacs
I'm a maniac myself

The Night I hear a-calling
Moby **** upon my shelf

Center for teaching and learning
Will Ferrell played the Elf

Christmas not only December
Money not only wealth

                 Letters.

basketball and sacred deer
     late at night Shakyamuni appears
                 the Wheel in spin, do not fear...

                     childhood!

The noetic effects of sin.
I'm sorry.
Help me begin again.

Sylvia Plath called it a Bell Jar
Yo soy un isolato
Pain on rain on train
Female fantasies

Just wanna talk
Naked in the tub
Carolina Inn
Wishes. Rowan trees.

          silent pleas

Scripture reflections
Are for subscriber's only
So go **** your holy book

But Seattle U.
Robert Lowell too
Gonna take a look

Denver, Colorado
Portland in the rain
Charleston at night
Santiago, Spain

3 prayers for Cornel West
Sacramento son
Tick tock tick
The Baltic. Trappist 1!

                Toledo ...

I was given madness
I'm gonna see it through
I was given abuse
That is simply how she do

Loneliness unbroken
Phone calls to my son
Emails still unspoken
Taipei 101

My mother died in January
Georgetown cancer ward
SJW
Crosstich - thank you, Lord

SJW
Zero at the end
Snowfall shunyata
Zero be my friend

                  Amen

something obviously created us
for somehow here we are

but is that Something good at all
or are we born under indifferent stars?

no more to war and torment myself
no more searching near and far

but how I  wish for kindliness
caritas y la belleza del mar

So I wrote a few poems
Visited a few countries
Threw a few snowballs
Hospitals at night

Bainbridge island ferry
Tempura, miso soup
Snow Falling on Cedars
2 green lights

          But I can't quite ...