Not much. Not much.
Passing through the days
Leaves me lost and lonely
This life is a Maze

May the 4th be with you
It lingers and it stays
Some good thing
Silent when it prays

                xie xie

Said Horace Mann

Vietnamese food today
My t-shirt is The Rolling Stones
Will I die at home?
Will I die alone?

In gratitude for fatherhood
Keep them safe and sound
Keep them occupied
Dailiness profound

                         Up!

No one important
Drifting toward death
            Desperation
                    hope!

Already 55
Soon 56
Time tick tocks
Time tock ticks

Santa Rosa son
Birthday in June
Keep him, keep him close
Sing a Springsteen tune

Gratitude for dailiness
I still miss Seattle
Everything old is new again
Tecumseh prepares for battle

I liked living in Dublin
Rode the crowded bus
When my dad dies
What will become of us?

                        Trust?

Rain today
  Twilight
    Sleep

I'm tired and I'm lonely
Take care of my son
Basketball tonight
Un pequito fun

Grateful for good sleep
And Taipei 101
Promises to keep
Before my Day is Done

                 Forward!

I like, I like movies
Stories on the screen
I'm Carolina blue
But my Irish eyes are green

Once I taught middle school
Read books to the tweens
Holes, Flush, City of Ember
The Giver, Things Not Seen

Now I'm just a dad
No longer lean
Sweet Sir Galahad
America magazine

                        Ole!

The poetry of daily life
Ordinary not sublime
We spend the day together
More than killing time

Movies are companions
1987. Roxanne.
Susan Darlene Meek
I wanna be your man

Still fond of little Reno
Sledding in the snow
Black smoke in the sky
O we O we O!

                     So ...

Teaching Robert Frost
Teaching Emily D.
When my dad dies
What will become of me?

European history
Travel for my 3
Extrasolar water
Distant cosmic sea

                 We!

A million little poems
Stars in the night
Star Trek. Star Wars.
2 green lights

Viva Mexico!
Sor Juana's mystic flight
Santa Rosa, California
                Alright!

Extrasolar water
Astrobiology
Wild, wild Surmise
Mother Mary Let it Be!

                Si

Lonely little life
Not much. I don't know.
Bangkok in the rain
Seattle in the snow

Ordinary dailiness
On and on we go
Extrasolar water
Yoko yo yo yo yo!

Postcards
   Madness
       Desperation
                Hope.

San Francisco Zen Center
But only for an hour
I gave her my troubled letter
She gave me Hope for the Flowers

Seattle's misty rain
Ferry boats in blue
Me reading alone
Alone at Seattle U.

                       1992

When I traveled in Taiwan
I often took the train

I remember the typhoons
Relentless was the rain

Passed and prayed a Dragon temple
Daily on my way to school

The students most respectful
My sons a-swimming in the pool

Taiwan an island in the ocean
Some say the South China Sea

The Buddha and Confucius protect thepeople
Asian islands inside me.

Just a few little poems
Quiet in the night
Go down, Go down, Moses
Go down with a fight

A river runs through it
Puzzling our plight
Try to renew it
Mother Mary might

                 Water!

Grateful for fearless sleep
Dreaming of foreign lands
Susan Darlene Meek
Under your command

Thanks be for my sons
I hope they understand
The Song of Everyday
And a rockin' band

                   Ole!

Sweden in the summer
              Sunlight
                  Tak

I take him out for lunch
We journey through the days
Small victories
This life is a Maze

He gets enough sleep
I sleep as well
Dreaming of the Deep
We are the Witherells ...

sunlit Italy
    pasta
    sleep

My fantasies are delusions
I'm left with daily life
3 beautiful sons
1 ****** wife

I'd like to travel again
But don't have much money
Ben Shapiro is a racist
Steve Martin is funny

Grateful for good movies
Michael Clayton, Roxanne
I drift, I drift toward death
No Divine plan

Wrote all these poems
I reach out. I reach out.
3710
Wonder what that's about?

                           Ole!

Get a little fast food
But I take it slow
Once I walked alone
Through Seattle snow

Once I held her close
But that was long ago
How does it end?
No way to truly know

                    So ....

Said Giordano Bruno

There ain't no Answer
There never was an Answer
There ain't gonna be no Answer

                That's the Answer. :)

He sleeps.
Let him sleep in peace
Contemporary Seattle
More than Ancient Greece

Slowly. Get him through
Maybe baby
Maybe maybe
Maybe GMU

                 'tis true

I was in Italy once
Just about a week
Florence, Siena, Rome
I miss Susan Meek

My life is very boring
Try to make it through
Susan's hair is black
But her eyes are midnight blue

                  It's true.

David Markson
   Als Ick Kan
        Selah

I wish I was a shaman
Protection for my people
Somewhere near the forest
Nowhere near the steeple

But I'm just bipolar
Take my medication
Quiet in the night
Parental dedication

UFOs, what are those?
Extrasolar water
Hope for my sons
Prayers for her daughters

               Astrobiology!

Trump is a Demagogue
The Americans are his stooges
All Walls Fall
Lonely, quiet nights

Taipei 101
Delicious *** stickers
Vegetarian tacos
Sor Juana's mystic flight

I take the Tucson train
I saw Chicago snow
E I E I O
Gatsby's green light

Seattle in the summer
Slowly ferry boats
Moonlight up above
My Mr. Spock kite

                Well, alright!

Orthodontist today
Step by step by song
George Mason University
Mr. Harry Wong

Tired. Exoplanets!
Do my level best
I am a taxi service
Qualyxian the Quest

                    Yes.

He says poets find oblivion mostly kind
                      Maybe
                      Mostly

Boredinary Frederick
              Driving
        desperate hope

Got him to school today
Then I tried to sleep
I am a taxi service
Promises to keep

Keep him to me close
Slowly. Day by Day.
Misty rain Seattle
Silent is the Way

               xie xie

Tidal pools in Monterrey
San Francisco Zen
Sacramento childhood
Santa Rosa son

            California one.

Ordinary Frederick
Get him through high school
Slowly guacamole
Small victories

Gratitude for good sleep
Enough money to eat
Susan Darlene Meek
Please, baby, please!

Not much
Drifting toward death
Fatherhood

                   hope!

Marriage is misery
Fatherhood is joy
Quiet, lonely nights
Please protect my boys

O the isolation!
Hopefulness? Nitnoy.
Exoplanets spin
Water. Water. Ahoy!

Summer is coming
          Birthdays
             xie xie

A beautiful sunny day
I pick him up from school
Keep him moving ahead
Slowly, patient too

                    GMU!

Tokyo to Kyoto
Upon the Shinkansen

Misty rain Seattle
San Francisco Zen

1987
3710

Not really a question of if
More a question of when

Will I too disappear
Like I've never ever been?

Anxious. Runnin' scared.
Virginia Tech
Late night wreck
To be one who dared

Anxious. Exoplanets.
Drifting in my mind
Aging. Watching. Waiting.
I hope you treat me kind

                   Summer!

Sunlight
   Sigh
   Aye!