Sushi with my son
The joy of conversation

Mary in Maryland
Nightdrive contemplation

The moon October sky
Clouds in misty motion

Waiting. Still waiting.
Last full measure of devotion.

                    Autumn

So I was an English teacher
Taught the tweens
My favorite middle school book:
Things Not Seen

I like Carl Hiaasen
My favorite of his is Flush
The Green Light!
Her blush

Katniss Everdeen
I volunteer! I volunteer!
I drive
You steer

Still love the Hobbit
The Eagle and the Child
Young minds
Curiosity running wild

           Las bibliotechas!

Yes, the Irish love to drink
Sing, and play the fiddle in the band
But the question for us in England is:
How shall we give them back their land?

Chesterton was a genius
To me and GBS this is quite clear
And so, my fellow Americans
Our country indeed is dear:
But how shall we give the Native Americans back their land
When so many of them are no longer here?

The Buddhist insight is terrifying
But surely appears to be true

Life is endless change
Ain't nothin' we can do

This too shall pass
Parsed by Abraham Lincoln

Transience but still the Mass
Is the Way my mind is thinkin'

Possibly beyond good and evil
Probably into the Holy

I pray for beauty in memory retrieval
And protection when confronting

                    The Souly Solely

I have letters in the mail
Soon more to come

Conversations with Aurelio
I wonder where he comes from?

Philosophy begins in wonder
I take nightwalks with the stars

I wonder what will happen
With this Demagogue of ours

Maggie's Farm on Election Day
In all our Irish bars

India and the Jesuits
$3.73 and Depakote

No one else, No one else
Like the letter that I wrote

Now i sit and now i wait
Only she can vote

It's love; it really is.
Disguised, but still devote.

He says he has a weakness for the Darkness
I think I too can hear it
The end of Stolen Car
The Darkness: No need to fear it.

                 At times I'm near it.

The panic is uncomfortable
    Shaky, quavery within

               patience.

philosophy like a curtain
         what it hides - unknown, uncertain
                        my silent ride:  despair divertin'...


                                       downbound train

Sally was a legend
She was my mother too

Viva Sea Tac airport!
Someday again may I see you

Saw a man there playing
And singing songs by blind Ray Charles

Ah! the home of Vincent
Sweet summer sunshine all in Arles

Never been to Norway
But I have been to Paris, France

Ja, I live alone now
But if she asked, I would dance

               Entranced!

All I hear is silence
All I feel is sad
To escape America
The Land of Violent fads

I liked Copenhagen
Hotel room was small
Lunch in Malahide
River Eden, Wetheral

Lovely Uppsala Cathedral
Cycling Gamla Stan
3 days in Vienna
3 days linger on

Not much money now
Not much happiness
2 green lights
1 black dress

                No Yes?

Snowfall sunyata
Nothing lasts forever

But O! my losts and loves
The times ah! true together.

The dark thing within
Thomas means the Twin

Dr. Thomas, help me always begin
                   Mozartian.

voyaging in oceans, libraries, bookstores
             no Harvard, no Yale
         Marc Cohn on the radio
          Sweet home, Chicago!

Costa Rica this morning
Costa Rica and St. John
Coincidence and mystery
The Road goes ever on

Slowly guacamole
Let the music play
Jo Jo's Arizona
My callooh! callay!

Step by step by flight
Early Saturday
Jodi Picoult alights
Life of Pi to pray

Still got a few ideas
I plot and plant to place
Quiet conversations
The charm, the change, the chase

                  Hearts: Ace.

cell phone shock in Wetheral
         River Eden - we come to call
                   sheepfold, misty garden wall


                            Catteleya!

Some of the Catholic leadership
Is afraid of Facebook
And gender bending
Curious

Jesus was a sailor
Johnny Cash broke the jailor
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Early Dylan furious

          The Dalai Lama spurious.

America has no friends
Only interests
Said John Foster Dulles

But who would want
To live like that?
Fezzick, the portcullis!

The Princess has been stolen
Caps and gowns and tassles

To get her back takes courage
Have fun Storming the Castle!

The sadness will last forever
The loneliness will last too

Tonight the sky turned yellow
Then black through deepest blue

Catastrophe conditions
Basketball i knew

My sons sun far from me
Seattle rendezvous.

Let it be ambiguous
God only knows
Uptown movies in Charlotte
Wilmington UFOs

Keep her calm collected
Give her Singer Sargent
Emails of assistance
Remember Reno snows

Mother Mary's smile
Comfort in my fear
Courage to the end
Please let Alex hear

          3 dear deer

Walnut Heights
Citrus Heights
Nightflights

Back to the palindrome again
Was it a car or a cat I saw?
Warsaw Saw War
I sat on a silver seesaw

Music in the bar
Basketball on the screen
I kissed her in my car
Read to the students Things Not Seen

Once I was a teacher
Tried to do my best
A Child's Anthology of Poetry
Like a wordful Treasure Chest

Little Sage Ridge School
Big blue Reno sky
Tell her her hair is beautiful
When it comes my time to die

                Life of Pi!

September when it comes
And it has come near 10

Got my Johnny Cash t-shirt
In the psych ward, not Folsom Pen

Did spend a night in jail
Hope I never do that again

Mark is a wonderful person
And my oldest, truest friend

Some unusual things have happened
Even some mystery

And a lot of hospital stays
I taught history

Asia has the rains
Bangkok the monsoons

America it has bigotry
But also Dylan tunes

Dublin has the pubs
Finnegan's Wake, Maggie's Farm

David Markson:
Light. Terrificness. Alarm.

The Spanish is kinda fun
And me gusta bean burritos
Mi Madre in Ohio
The University of Toledo

Life is isolation
Death is forever
Father Greeley so unique!
Sacramento Heather

Uppsala was quite charming
Tokyo was trains
Florida is Ignorance
Gotham is Bruce Wayne

         The Whale is Spain!

yesterday Santa Rosa
but tomorrow hey! Taipei

unde malum? unde malum?
none can truly say

Ignorance and malice
all across the USA

but I catch the flight from Dallas
and I land as planned: Galway!

human life as horror story
     endless strife grotesque and gory
                endurance without fame or glory

        silent music, I implore thee!

I don't have to have it all figured out
Just have to play my part
I am Cinna the Poet!
Not Napoleon Blown Apart

The wedding was in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv was blue
Sent her City of Ember
And Horton Hears a Who

Elly de la Cruz
Cincinnati Reds
Saturday Night in Toledo, Ohio
Grandma's Feather Beds

I'm still on the lookout
Still plot and plan
SJW
The Mosque of Colors in Iran

                  Love in a Chevy van

grateful can live with guilt
      a timeful, mindful quilt
           relationships rebuilt?


              hopeful to the hilt

I'm not an important person
I give no interviews
Kinda sad inside
I have the moody blues

55 and falling
Am I late along?
Sad. So very sad.
Rama Lama ding ****

Scott is a debunker and a true believer. He is a debunker because he is a true believer.

American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology
                          Pg. 85

lovely day today
grateful for the light

watching Jokic play
his passing my delight

what would Susan say?
yes, I'm desperately seeking

but I live on my own
yes, I keep on geeking

           Ms. Meeking.

Dr. Cohen speaks
Of Shakespeare's plays
As a gift

Thank you kindly
For the lift

Hitch Hikin'

Andrew Greeley enlightening
On Springsteen
And he prayed, Thy will be done

In his Imagination
God is a Truly Beautiful Woman
And like Rumi
He sincerely believed
That the person who has seen
A truly beautiful woman
Has seen a glimpse of God

Her eyes shine like
(Because they created)
The Midnight Sun

OOOOOOOO She's the One!

She's the One, yeah!

She's the One!

I'm religious
But I can't believe in life after death
And I fear annihilation

Went to just one school prestigious
I love traveling
Fear predation

Such sadnesses with romance
No luck
A flop with chicks

But a woman's voice provides such comfort
Nurses
Mystery mix

                         Silencio
                      Moby ****'s

Fidelity, not success
Fidelity. Emptiness.

              Yes.

I know the little way is right
Love is patient and kind
No literal life after death
I wanna travel blind

Susan on the DC metro
Flickers in my mind
Darling Nikki on Facebook
Yes, she kick your behind

Mr. David Markson
Yellow. Vincent. Green.
Slept all afternoon
She is always 17

Georgetown today
Grey. Thea Bowman tween.
Uniquity. Divergent.
Chicago. Things Not Seen.

             wait and hope

No one puts limits on God.
She doesn't like it.

              - Fr. Andrew Greeley
                (of blessed memory)

His swimming lesson
Flickers a memory of my swimming lesson
Columbus, Ohio
YMCA in the winter

Wanna rename Columbus
But keep Ohio
Wheels spin
Societies splinter

The new breaks through
The old rediscovered
The Archaic smokes
The self is othered

My boy can swim
Goin' to Florida for Spring Break
When you gamble
Sometimes give. Sometimes take.

                    Stay Awake.

An analogical imagination
Both oral and **** ***
A decades' long obsession
About my priest's daughter ex

Timor Mortis Conturbat Me
Anxiety attacks
Difficulty sleeping at times
Hard for me to relax

Science fiction movies
Beyond Comics gamestore
Hagia Sophia
Virgins. Mothers. ******.

Chicago in the winter
Reno in the snow
Trappist 1, Midnight Sun
No one on Earth will ever know

                 On we go ....

Powerful twilight sky!
Yellow dark blue to black
Nixon destroyed Cambodia
George W. destroyed Iraq

Don't know where you're goin'
You ain't comin' back
What's Going On? First Take.
Marvin Gaye. Roberta Flack.

Powerful twilight sky!
Yellow all aglow
Ain't talkin', just walkin'
No one on Earth will ever know

                Ay yay yayo!

Nikola Jokic can play!
The big man passes true

I miss my younger days
Steve and Mike and you

Vincent's stars are yellow
Carolina blue

Irish Sea is green
Reno rendezvous

     Mystery Sioux

I occasionally read them
But I don't really like the book reviewers
The professional critics
The columnists, The professors

I was a teacher
Taught the writers, poets, novelists
Not too charismatic myself
But earnest; tried to do my duty

The idea of the Jesuits
More than the reality
Black robes in Japan
Aristocratic confessors

Kathryn Orr
Gal Gadot
Susan Meek
Beauty.

I've explored American madness
I prefer a good night's sleep
The country makes me crazy
Tears in time I weep
3 days in Vienna
Like a fairytale in snow
I kiss my sons goodnight
On and on we go

                      Yo.

All my love
All my hope
All my books
In vain

He said
He saw Prince
Amazing show
In Spain

Death is annihilation
The end
Of all
The pain

Bats
Cats
Rats
Bruce Wayne

He accused Melville of being Piratical
But I played baseball too
Bert be home Blyleven
Pondicherry Zoo

I am a left handed pitcher
Steal a base after a walk
Very drawn to silence at times
Not as drawn to talk

A Pirate Looks at 40
And now I'm 53
Carl Hiaasen in Miami
We near the Baltic Sea

             Pirates We!