Asia in my life
Rice. The Buddha too.
Thai iced tea
Merton at JMU

Hunan vegetable
Korean grocery store
Bangkok in the rain
4044

San Francisco Zen
Two years in Taipei
Lost in Translation
Still I say xie xie

Encounters with Chinese Hermits
Red Pine's Road to Heaven
A little won ton soup
3837

I wish I was a shaman
Protection for my tribe
Talk with the animals
But I just struggle to survive

Jesuit Volunteer Corps
1993
Seattle in the snow
In Dublin meant to be

Bipolar disorder
Disability
Monthly injection
Proceeding hopefully

Just the little poems
I am a Markson Man
Als Ick Kan
Do the best I can.

She's a schizophrenic
And we are married still
Keep her in the Calm
Slowly, day by day

Distant Barcelona
Cathedral by Gaudi
La Sagrada Familia
Maybe she can see

          Enduring We

Republicans despise victims
Which is why they make so many
I just stay inside and read
Poetry in my mind

Reno
Tahoe
Denver
I hope you treat me kind

                 55 and falling
           Something left to find?

It's true I like the movies
Popcorn by my feet
Mr. Michael Clayton
And everyone I meet

I'm not worried about political correctness
One man to Overthrow!
Reno in the summer
Seattle in the snow

The historical Jesus didn't die for your sins
Or mine
He just got crucified

The historical George. W. didn't **** to protect
Your freedom
He killed because he lied.

I like Gerard Manley Hopkins
God's grandeur, terrible sonnets
Wonder if he was bipolar too?
Jesuits in my life

Give my best to Chicago
All that winter wind
Snow on the lake
South Side in strife

           worry for my wife

I write the little poems
Memory, place, rhyme
I don't chant the sutras
I just pass the time

Bangkok motorcycle taxis
Gliding in the rain
Tokyo to Kyoto
On the bullet train

55 and falling
American despair
Politics Portends
Highwater Everywhere