Vishnu and Shiva also in Thailand
My family, Lake Linganore
Cam studies science
I read forgotten lore

Only equivocally *******
A symbol of Something Else
Mr. David Markson
Arthur Edens on my shelf

2023
I wait and watch and wonder
Ruby quietly
In Reno Rolling Thunder

Catteleya makes me crepes
Gracias Senyora
Elizabeth Gaskell
I own no fedora

                North and South

Cornel West, Cornel West
Sacramento, Kennedy blessed

Chesterton too in my chest
Pushin' on till time to rest

Toledo speech, Toledo test
Mahalia Jackson and the Mess

Amos 3:7?
Yes, yes, yes!

wandering, working - again on my own
                  young sons sung
                      exoplanets!

Says Principal O'Grady
St. Mary Magdelene by the Expressway
Virtual graduation
Saturday Night Live

(it's significantly true too)

Cam Cam I am tonight
We talk of kangaroos

Wouldn't mind Australia
But if I had to choose

I would choose New Zealand
Then back to dear Taipei

Goodnight, my precious boy
Frabjous joy: callooh! callay!

For myself: to live again in Seattle
And to die near the boys.

For others: courage in battle
And deep bluegreen joys.

Highway 61
Northbound 35
Anxiety, solitude, sexless
But happy to be alive

San Francisco Zen
Moroccan mint tea
3710
Beauty Baltic Sea

Libraries are quiet
She reaches for her coffee
Her hair is long and brown
Thailand Land of the Free

She said her name is Brigid
Poetry and protection
Women's ordination
2033

       Dublin: Meant to be.

I'm religiously obsessed
Not good for practical life
Thinking thinking thinking
Apartment messy small

Mystery in Dublin
Mystery in Virginia
Mystery in Corvallis
Mystery in Wetheral

But also mental illness
No real way to tell the difference
Bipolar brings psychosis
And elevation tall

Now it's 37
Sometimes 72
Grateful true for John
Peter more than Paul

          Coming Fall

consciousness from matter?
or rather matter from the Mind?

everything is permitted
therefore, be courageous and be kind.

It's a difficult time
Fears and tears

But the sun still shines
Rolling years

I miss my mom
My loved ones far

Quiet nights
Florida cars

Courage please
A gazillion stars!

In Xanadu did Kublai Khan
In Taipei did I
In Charlotte Eliade
The smiling statue is Thai

Basketball gives me hope
The Greek Freak on the break
Jokic with the needle pass
Linganore the Lake

Indoor soccer today
Beautiful blue sky
Un Escritor
But I don't know why

Read a lot of books
She broke me and I ache
O those 80s ladies!
Nothin' but love to make

                  Shannon!

Avatar 2 was very boring
Jake Sully, what happened to you?
I rewatch Batman Begins
The end of 2022

The bath helped a bit
I need the Lithium
Alanis Morissette
India alum

I'm tired and a taxi
Tryin' to get back alone
Eva Cassidy
Gas station mountain home

Frederick, Maryland
We walk around the mall
St. John of the Cross
The nothing is the all

              The Mahdi. Paul?

all this sound and fury
simply signifying nada?

now she knows my struggles
with my wife and with my fada

flamenco in sweet Seville
the great mosque in old Grenada

Highway 375
E.T. we see Nevada?

Leonard Nimoy, Mr. Spock
          the hospital, nurse and doc
                    ticking time, counting clock ...

      spacetime forms, relativity rocks.

The bipolars of today
Are the shamans of yesterday.

Just because I sensed it coming
Doesn't mean I caused it.

Calm.

Thank you, David Markson
For your wondrous Notecard Quartet

We your grateful readers
Will never quite forget

How you confronted dread mortality
And still managed to beget

This treasure trove of wisdom
Inexaustible and yet

When we dive into your ocean
And emerge revived and wet

We have but one enduring wish
Oh, that you might give us a quintet!

Cornel West called Bernie Sanders
A long distance runner
Chicago
'Tis true

Barack Obama
Chicago
Left handed J
The comfort in his voice

Andrew Greeley
Chicago
Bulls, Cubs, Bears
Praying for them to do better

Alex Nava
Chicago
Ping pong
Calvert House

                 Lady of the Lake
             Please do not forsake

I have to live my delusions
Of grandeur and recognition
I hope they are Quixotic
Knight errant my ambition

Almost sick with worry
Almost dead with dread
Mark in Sacramento
Unexpected is what she said

I like unexpected
Breakthrough of the new
I like unexpectable
That one came from who?

Still got my Yoda shirt
He can use the Force
So can Christo Rey
So can we, of course

              Source

in obscurity, working
     lonely silence lurking
         Orhan Pamuk Turking

and I reading while Trump’s berserking.

Albert Camus, now we have plague too
      Fascism with an American twist
            I rebel; therefore, we exist

All That Jazz
The Feminine Mystique
Angelique

Got on my Celtic socks
I could use a little luck
Brigid, dearest Brigid
I rode the Dublin bus

When my dad dies
What will become of us?

Mormonism freaks me out
Brigham Young had 56 wives
And 57 children.
It's American ******.

But I remember Mike and Steve
Their mom listening to Neil Diamond
Susan Lindsay was a sweetheart
Her mention of Heavenly Father

They say the people of Charleston
Are like the Chinese
They eat rice
And worship their ancestors

I was there one night
Gentle warm breeze
Churches lit up
I walked to the water

Protective prayers for her son
Nitnoy joy for her daughters

                     Open.

I'd like to sleep in a library
Wake up reading books

A woman can still be mean
No matter how good she looks

My oldest son likes dragons
He's also one who cooks

The Shire holds the Baggins
It also holds the Tooks

Three cheers for Mr. Frodo!
And three boos for David Brooks.

.............Rieko............
My funny Valentine
             Kyoto

so much solitude
         poems perching
                    reader needer

Melville and Phillip K. ****
       lately late night library clicks
                 time is tape, but nothing sticks ...


                                minority reports

The anxiety comes on so strong
Tears and panic again

I reach out to my family
I reach out for a friend

I hate the bipolar madness
Just wish for dailiness do

Struggles one day over
Peace for me and you

          Kindliness too

Evil presidente - may his words unsay
  much rejoicing when he goes away
  Sic semper tyrannis this Christmas Day

The aggressive feelings frighten me
But I saw the water today
Wedded meditation
Come forth callooh! callay!

Still I try for dailiness
For protection I do pray
Love is patient and kind
In France the little way

      Merci, Simone Weil.

Took two years of Latin
Wasn't particularly good
Honeymoon in Rome
Fr. Reginald Foster could

John Byron Kuhner
Angel of New York
I am a pescatarian
Salmon but no pork

Sophia University
I would like to go
Little Sage Ridge School
Grey sky Reno snow

Susan Darlene Meek
Black hair but blue eyes
Trappist monasteries
Exoplanet skies

        Ay! Ay! Ay!

The ****** are actually
More perfect than we are
Said Heath Ledger
Because they are actually *******

One Dark Knight in Chicago
Two Face
Harvey Two Face
Batcycle. Trucking.

Father Greeley loved Chicago
And Tucson
But difficult
Difficult for me

Stockholm
Linkoping
Uppsala
South China Sea

            Silent Plea

Both meaningful and meaningless
I walk my so-called life
Protection for my sons
From the chaos of my wife

Solitude is peaceful
And lonely as can be
Once we 5 were cycling
By the Baltic Sea

America is agony
Violence and hate
Tea in San Francisco
Go the Dragon Gate

I ride Downbound Trains
Mind on yon Taiwan
137
Sweden's Gamla Stan

        Once upon...

Our politics is Absurd
My father's house is calm collected
Yo soy un Protector
Who also needs to be protected

Navajo. Seminole, Arapahoe.
Sitting Bull. Crazy Horse.
Helped her out of a jam I guess
But I used a little too much force

San Francisco Zen
Edamame for my son
3333
Taipei 101

Jesus was a Sailor
Shiva does his dance
Heidelberg, Germany
Thai singers in Paris, France

         Wishin' for a little romance

Within I sense a silence
Too deep for any names
Unknown, unheard, unseen, unless
It lingers and remains

Above, below, between, beyond
All words that humans speak
Approaching ever only those
Who surely strongly seek

To find the other silent ones
Apophatically Greek
Ascending Mt. Olympus
Yet mysteriously Meek

the poetry is simple
just the little way
memory, place
gracias xie xie

one for my family
one I cannot say
one for desperate hope
Silent is the Way

Am I creating worlds then leaving?
No, planting mustard seeds.
Or maybe stealing bases
Watch me get my lead

Rickey Henderson
Seattle's Ichiro
Bert "be home" Blyleven
I'm a Pirate: gotta go

             Yo ** **!

He calls Red Pine credulous
Superstitious. A believer in foreign fables.
I listen to the lecture
Yes, I am intrigued

Rainmaker
Chungnan Mountains
Men ask the Way
Arrival need

Spirit houses
Coincidence
Mysteries
Mustard seeds

Fo Guang Shan
Shamanic trance
Camus in France
Quiet creed

      Tea Indeed

**** and 17
My little Rock N' Roll Queen
Just a little bit obscene
Carolina blue, Irish Green

What I like about you
And I like Ben Vereen
All That Jazz
Feelin' groovy, Tolkien tween

Chapel of the Cross
At times just a bit mean
I am so into you
And she is in between

Dylan in Tahoe
Seattle homeless scene
Dylan in Orlando
Jolene! Jolene! Jolene!

    Rolling Stone magazine

In the beginning was the Word
But before the Word was silence

It's true life is Absurd
So much chaotic violence

Men on first and third
I'm looking for a single

I'm still a theonerd
With philosophers I mingle

               Ah! Kris Kringle

I don't really have friends
Politics portends
Life goes on until it ends

                    Reno!

I have fond memories of Sweden
A very good country
Apartment in the city
Food, coffee shops

Cycling by the Baltic
Thai singers in the park
Gamla Stan alone
Remember me to Mark

Max Von Sydow
Snow Falling on Cedars
I have obsessive love
And I love Ishmael

Moby **** in my car
Call me an intense reader
Yo soy un silent pleader
Ain't no tongue can tell

    Thomas Frederick Witherell

The Episcopal Church is the pretty one
But I do not step inside
Deer sleeps in the grass
I walk down Franklin Street

Vegetarian hot dogs
Pineapple pizza
Jay's teleportation
The free bus gives me greet

Amber in the post office
Tolkien tattoos
SauRon Desantis
Huey Lewis and the News

Duke kicked me out
I am UNC
Basketball at midnight
It's a tarheel life for me

                 3033

life is a horror story
America is too

but oh those sacred days
when I was still with you

i hope you find true love
i love you yes I do

a poem in the Night
my heart alight for you

Blake was entranced
By his own imagination
He wrote several great poems
But I hope to avoid that trap

I have intense fantasies
I told her also
But there is no Dulcinea
Cate is as real as it gets

I listen to Kenny Rogers
Prince. Emmylou.
John Denver I sent to Denver
And the story of the Trappists

The test of inspiration
Is inside of you, not me
The work is done, then forgotten
On your mark. Get set ...