Too solitary to be important
            Too boring too
               fatherhood!

But at my best I resist!

Downtown Taipei
Taxi home at night
          xie xie

Troubling proclivities
Drifting toward death
Fatherhood. Protection.
Arthur Edens reversaleth

Grateful for dailiness
Eating. Sleeping. Breath ...
Susan Darlene Meek
Als Ick Kan - my best.

Took two years of Latin
But I wasn't very good
Rome on my honeymoon
And in my neighborhood

Sunlit Italy
Jackie Graziano
Mysterium Tremendum
Mr. Rudolf Otto

                    Vale!

The meaning is in the living
Lost, unsatisfied
Drifting toward death
Cannot be denied

But may I go down grateful
Fatherhood! I cried
Please, Life, protect my sons
Please let her know I tried

               George W. Lied

Ferry boat blues
    Grey and green
             Seattle!

Afternoon with my son
    Eating, driving, sleeping
                      Tak.

Library at Seattle U.
Me reading all alone
University of Chicago
I threw a Rolling Stone

Galaxy Quest is best
Better than Twilight Zone
All these little poems
On my little black cell phone

                     Ole!

Library at Seattle U.
       Space Needle
             Salmon

I find Seattle beautiful
I like the misty rain
Music at night at Kells
Life itself is pain

Ferry boats aboard
You can see the planes
Reading at Seattle U.
I'm alone again

I dreamed about her last night
                 40 years later
                     Every Rose ...

Chinese food today
Then pick up my son
He was born abroad
Near Taipei 101

Get him through high school
Before my Day is Done
Get him through do wah do
Un pequito fun

                hey hey!

Said Tom Wolfe

Sledding in the Reno snow
           Big open sky
                My sons!

tidal pools in Monterrey
my sons still so young
             the ocean!

Patientia
   Slow
     Yo

Slowly
Als Ick Kan
Sleep

Just a few little poems
Softer than the rain
Snowfall in Vienna
Sunshine in Spain
And in La Florida
I rode the Downbound Train
Time tock ticks
I'm alone again

                      Ole!

I imagine the rain washes me clean
                     El futuro
                          Slow

He was scared last night
Came to the couch to sleep
Hard rain today
Promises to keep

The day proceeds as planned
I pick him up from school
Dr. Cohen is a scholar
Harold Bloom a fool

I like the pouring rain
Bring on the coming night
Keep him to me close
It'll be alright

                       Flight!

Wanhope
Als Ick Kan
      Selah

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 ....