Maybe just chance
But it is curious
Irish eyes
Poetry

Protective spirits
Basketball
Quiet dreams
Let it be!

Mary's Land
Yellow sky
Thai dancers
Baltic Sea

Gratitude
Help from my dad
Silent flights
3733

          Oui.

Tired. Lonely. Solitude.
Summer sun has come
John Denver music
Taipei 101

Ambiguous. Crazy Nights.
Florida in the rain
The death of Thomas Aquinas
The life of Avila, Spain

Portland. Japanese tea.
Tired, laying in bed
Please protect my boys, O Life,
Long after I am dead

Blue. Green. Baltic Sea.
Scifi and fantasy books
She meets me in the bath
Creme brulee I cooks

                   Stockholm!

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 ....

two nights ago, snaky dreams
scary, very scary

my mind is mystic madness
but my life boring ordinary

been to Chartres Cathedral
raised for Mother Mary

been to sweet Seattle
rode the gentle ferry

haven't been to heaven
won't get there when I'm buried

but maybe my memory a blessing
long live Mr. Chapin (Harry!)

1230
Not 1600
I wait
Yes I wait

Santa Rosa knows ya
Highway 101
Tea in San Francisco
Near the Dragon Gate

Catteleya in the morning
I confide in Judi
Rainy Night in Georgia
Destiny, not Fate

In my solitude
Hoping that she hears
Burning down the years
Silent prayers for Cate

               2088

the mysteries, myths, and madness
religions bring to be

I’ve searched and sought my whole life
acquainted with all three

the Sacred is confusing
I sense but can’t quite see

misty morning starlight
River Eden running free

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

                  helpfulness

In my secret life
She holds me
I whisper in her ear
We bathe for hours together
We speak of Buddhist deer

I talk about her father
She talks about my mom
Trinity Episcopal
Hotel room after prom

In my actual life
I sleep again alone
Obsessively write poems
Rarely answer the phone

Probably born too late for God
Mountain in the mist
Embers, burning embers
Genuflection. Kiss.

                      Miss

St. Thomas More
Oxford, 1492

Cristobal Colonizer
We're comin' after you!

Love is patient and kind
But human beings are not
3 prayers for Ry
7 hopes for Scott

2025, politics portends
Have to muddle through
Cannot see the end

                     por favor!

I do have coincidences
But I have no direct path to God
The psychiatrist says it's nothing
Yo soy solo Todd

I like minarets
Cathedrals
Zen Centers
Libraries

I watch movies alone
Call my sons
Play basketball
****.

Detroit's Fox Theater
Taipei 101
MoPop
Lemonade. Strawberries.

           Susan. Judi. Alex.

                    (hope)

C.S. Lewis on the 16th Century
Better then the Problem of Pain
Magic may be real
So may Purple Rain

Only in Minneapolis once
Sorry, Mr. Keillor
She and I, Life of Pi
Am I a Wounded Healer?

Smalltown USA
Used DVDs
Someone for to say
Please, baby, please

Oxford, Harvard, Chicago
Me in Paris, France
Arthur Edens calls
Shiva does his dance

My sons more than me
Fire more than water
3333
2 beautiful daughters

           Taught her?

               Taut her?

Black Elk’s vision, axis mundi
        Turtle Island hidin’
              shamanism

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 ...

Some say rest in peace
Some say rest in power
The Son indeed will come
But no man knows the hour

My mind on Tallahassee
La Florida, the Land of Flowers
This thing destroys the Ring
This thing all things devours

                Frodo lives!

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree

In Charlotte in my dream
A poetic stanza came to me

Wrote it down. Sent it off.
My old lover for to see

Now a song. I journey long.
I journey telepathically.

               Let her oui!

Emily, Emily
Of your words I'm greatly fond

Emily, Emily
I have no magic wand

Emily, Emily
The Silence does not respond

Oh! But Emily, Emily
Species stands beyond?

The twilight as I age
The sky
The yearning
The fade

I just want to talk to her
Not explain
Just talk

The Shinkansen is quite quiet
The boat to Helsinki was karaoke

What could I tell her?
16 years old

16

they say the play
of passion and chance

I say the Way
of splashin’ and dance

for her a bouquet
and horses that prance

In Spain an ole
Then the nighttrain to France

Perplexing proclivities
Lonely in the day
Gunmetal gray the sky
Silent is the Way

High school is a blur
Dawn goes down to day
Basketball tonight
Watch the Wizards play

                xie xie

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

                     childhood!

No, I don't like the intellectuals
It's such an ugly word

But I have learned from their books
And their suspicions I have heard

I do like the intelligent
Poets, musicians, point guards

7th grade girls who write well
Those who confront bullies in schoolyards

Ishmael in Moby **** and that cedar snow
Steve Martin in Roxanne, Edgar Allan Poe

Plato - Yes. Aristotle - Sometimes.
Alexander the Great?  No. No. No.

I distrust certainties
religious or scientific

I like the overthrowers
with ideas wild, prolific

mystery abides
Markson’s light terrific

beauty often hides
I’ve known her near the Pacific

I like the phrase Thy will be done
But I don't know if Thy is real
I pray for those I love
Beg, borrow, steal

I'm sad so very often
I'm still afraid to die
I'm drawn to several religions
I reread Life of Pi

Tried to be a good teacher
Pretty difficult job
Ja Morant on the break
Jokic with the lob

Think I had a precognitive dream
Warning of the fascists
Dyess, Arkansas
That's where Johnny Cash is

It's too late to turn back now
It's possible I'll be studied
Chicago, Rolling Stones
Muddy Waters muddied

         Fear and Trembling

florida is ignorance and powerful thunderstorms salvador dali museum palm trees images the coean at night the memories fade but i was in miami once some say miami dade wrote carl hiaasen the green flash is real 1987 seems like another lifetime probably wont go back if my ashes are thrown into the ocean in seattle will they ever reach the beach in the keys please baby please a goddess on her knees 37 degrees

                                    Florida don't freeze

She would have to come here
And that's not gonna happen
So, my dear,
What should I do?

2023
I wait. I wait.
Children grow
Carolina blue

Rainin' Hard in Frisco
Susan, not Sue
Every Rose Has It's Thorn
Pi has the Pondicherry Zoo

           I ain't got you

cycling in the Stockholm sun
        beauty by the Baltic
           depression lifts
             great gratitude
               my memory
                    burns
                     and...


                   returns.

Korean shamaness
Choose your words carefully
Mountain spirits hear it
Tigers in the night

Most diligent students
Kimchi for my lunch
Drummers in Toronto
My son's friend does delight

Shamanistic sickness
Asian rain on trains
Hermit Kingdom silence
Mathematics and insight

              Yeobuseo!

Prince exhibit coming to MoPop
        His Purpleness near Pike Place
               Gone but the songs still soar

                     Punch to a Higher Floor!

It's gonna have to be posthumous
Emily
Markson
Melville
Vincent's Green Eyes

Frodo
Legolas
Amber
Oxford
Gandalf the Wise

1937
Guernica
The Hobbit
The Cost of Discipleship
Als Ick Kan

             (I still tries)

Our Middle Ages are Indigenous
Not knights and castles
Rather, tipis, long houses, totem poles
Hunting, gathering, fishing

Ghost Dances
Vision Quests
Ravens
The Great Spirit

We drove from Santa Rosa
To Antelope Canyon
Walked with the family from Japan
Photos

Seminole resistance
Chicago in the winter
Genocide and Persistence
Lakota, Dakota

              Hey, Victor!

Gangster proclivities
Yes, Dr. West, I got some
Prayers on my knees
Protect her family

When the loftiness comes on
And the mystic flight
Let me ravensoar
Don't shut out the light

Momma, don't shut out the light!

David Markson
The Notecard Quartet

Pace Sartre
God is an Artist

Like a painter
Not a Bonapartist

Where there's Light
And where there's darkest

          Creativity!

Get what I can to Alex
Get what I can and disappear
The meaninglessness strikes twice
I step back but do not fear

Rainy Night in Georgia
Rocky Mountain High
We might meet together
In the sweet bye and bye

We might fall apart
Never to meet again
The artist is in his work
His love is in his friends

Not understood till later
If understood at all
Satellite Beach, Florida
River Eden, Wetheral

              Hey y'all!

Not to rush
Don't live too fast
Tomorrow to take it
Today Everlast

Ah! Blackie Ryan
Maybe some clues
Chicago Maroon
St. Louis Blues

Many things buried deep
Have to wait for the Fate
Si Sanuk Di!
Paella for Cate

Got a few ideas
But I need Barnes and Noble
Live in Maryland
Don't live in Chernobyl

               Bullet. Train.

Hermits are part of society in China
A very important part
They help people.

Hermits in America are misanthropes.

Once again, the American suburbanites
and pundits with Ph.Ds
offering pleas
in support of race hate
and white supremacy

which leaves me alone
in darkness
on my knees

please, one day,
let them see.
their lack
of human sympathy
brings terror
to be.

The unreasonable silence of the world
Which so bothered Monsieur Camus

Impossible Unde Malum
Which so bothers me too

I don't have any great goals
I sleep. I wake. I sleep.

I did have one strange dream
Charlotte: Can you keep?

                     I wonder

Maybe I was born
In the wrong time and space

Or maybe it's just this country
***** up my headspace

Don't want to be a millionaire
Or destroy the Middle East

Don't want to hate my neighbors
Or carniverously feast

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Do want to timeflight travel
And sleep the shining stars

Wish that Victor Farrington
Might mean that Irish bars

Somehow know the secrets
Of this love that we call ours

Maggie and sweet Molly Malone
Trappist 1! far sun, not Mars.

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

it just rolls on without me
the thought that scared me so much

inconsequential but
Chris Mullin had a shooter's touch

i have quiet at night
bball in the day

St. John's had Michael Clayton
My t-shirt too did say

Her smile
if only it could stay

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


                                 who looms?

Death will be Release
Torment finally gone
I hope to sleep in peace
Temple of the Dawn

I read a lot of books
Rode a lot of trains
Once taught with Mike Zook
Never Been to Spain

Music a companion
The guns gotta go
Seattle all alone
Softfall cedar snow

Misery of my marriage
3 beautiful boys
No horse or carriage
She's got the *** toys

Would that she would hold me
Let me cry and cry
Delusions y Confusions
Exoplanet Sky

Extrasolar Water
Pink champagne on ice
South Side of Chicago
Ooo dat girl looked nice

Tired, trepidation
Not a lotta money
Maybe Stranger Than Fiction
Will Ferrell very funny

We are the language animal
I go ramblin' round
Lonely as the rain
Off like a prom gown

Hope amidst despair
In the mud the lotus flower
The Daughters indeed will come
No man knows the hour

                 Reno!

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