Mary and the Buddha
Edgar Allen Poe
Tolkien's beloved Hobbits
And I love her so

I write these little poems
Don't really know why
Kamakura snow
Exoplanet sky

55 years old
Am I near the end?
The silence is eternal
Silence be my friend

Chicago in the winter
Boston tambien
Seattle, sweet Seattle
San Francisco Zen

                And then ...

In Copenhagen for a few days
Little sunlight in my hotel
Soren Kierkegaard
Call me Ishmael

European history
Asian bullet trains
Not much remaining mystery
Karaoke Purple Rain

Call my son tonight
Just to say hello
Bangkok in the rain
Seattle in the snow

55 and falling
The American Abyss
Try to do my best
In ******* times like this

                     Resist!

I am puzzled by coincidence
Details. Details matter.
German philosophy
Hey batter, batter!

Rick Steves in Berlin
Me reading Schopenhauer
The Son indeed will come
But no man knows the hour

Down to the last pfennig
Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx
My family in little Reno
Visiting the parks

Mr. David Markson
Postcards in the mail
Time tick tocks
Does the power of love prevail?

So little ability to influence
Wake, sleep, dream
The country is a nightmare
I play for my team

Tired. Exoplanets.
Rabbi Nahman's silent scream
Tea and scones for breakfast
Strawberries and cream

Red Pine in the Chungnan Mountains
Speaking with an elderly Daoist hermit
Circa 1989

Who is this Chairman Mao you keep speaking of?

The Americans choose Trump
Their own condemnation
I stay inside and sleep
Quiet meditation

I like volleyball
Might watch GMU
My Irish eyes are green
But I'm Carolina blue

Marriage didn't work
So I sleep alone
Write a few poems
On this little black cell phone

I want a different country
Might reread Moby ****
55 and falling
Suffering and sick

                     Patientia ...