America is Ignorance
The politics reactionary
I drive the lonesome highway
Remember bullet trains

Lovely Susan Meek
Kamakura snow
Seattle's Ichiro
Santiago, Spain

              Purple Rain.

The world's a kind of madhouse
So much anger, so much strife
Quiet monasteries
A little lamplight rain

California Coast
Carmel by the Sea
Short drive to Reno
Dumplings - xie xie ni

             cedar tree

Gentle snowfall
Kamakura Buddha
           Quiet

3 days in Vienna
All that beautiful snow
Yo soy un theonerd
I'm no Romeo

Got a monk in me
Yo silencio
Unknowable is God
And I love her so

             Reno!

together
troubled, but together

Black the night an ocean
Quiet on my drive
Life is suffering
But I'm grateful to be alive

Buddhamind in Bangkok
Snowfall in DC
Boredinary Maryland
3033

                  mint tea

Keep him calm collected
Ordinary days
Eating drinking sleeping
Video games he plays

Life is suffering
Help me suffer through
Purple Rain, Toledo, Spain
Carolina blue

                   Y Tu?

Seattle on St. Patrick's Day
          Anxiety Attack
            meant to be

driving driving driving
       keep him safe
               rest

Seattle to San Francisco
         Buddhamind
                sitting

I think of California
On these grey winter days
Tidal pools in Monterrey
My boys still so young!

Best wishes to you, Mark
My marriage is disaster
Falling fast and falling faster
Bob Dylan's song sung

                   Ain't Talkin'

I am a taxi service
Get him through the days
The pain that living brings
Life is like a Maze

Maryland so boredinary
Everything is gray
Time tick tocks
Dawn goes down to day

Driving driving driving
Long past time to pray
Worry, constant worry
Hidey hidey hidey hey!

chaotic daily life
emotional despair
   muddle through

keep him on track, forward
               dailiness
                  hope

Reno was basketball
Coached with my friend John
Stockholm was summer
Scifi Gamla Stan

Bangkok was family
Motorcycle taxis in the rain
Honeymoon was Italy
Still never been to Spain

                    Ole!

One life only
Then disappear forever
Don't matter if you're smart
Don't matter if you're clever

                     Never.

I am a taxi service
Which is ok by me
Rest, quiet rest
In Dublin meant to be

Leonard Cohen in London
Springsteen in DC
San Francisco Zen Center
Moroccan mint tea

               xie xie ni

The poems of daily life
Eating, sleeping, night
Call my son on the phone
Courage in the fright

He's a living wonder
Youngest child delight
I sleep till nearly eleven
He's my little light

                 shining

So much for lost love
Better dailiness
Take care of my sons
Try to see them through

             Fondly JMU

Evening Door Dash
      Sweet Tooth
         Crumble

hey ** the wind and the rain
                   Staunton
                       song

Undiagnosed schizophrenia
          chaotic daily life
                      strife

Trinity College, Dublin
London in the mist
Prince in southern Spain
I cannot resist

Coastal California
The Old Man and the Sea
Thank you, Life, for my sons
3 gratefully

                       We

Fondly little Reno
Fondly Sage Ridge School
Cordelia is truly noble
Harold Bloom was a fool

I taught Julius Caesar
The Old Man and the Sea
Reno in the snow
In Dublin meant to be

                   Oui.

crisis after crisis
   schizophrenia
  muddle through

The daily chaos
        crises
         Ah!

Day by Day
    slowly
       yo

Dr. Thomas
  Genuine
      JMU

So many worries and fears
           destiny appears
                    go for it!

Snow. Yo. Vienna.

Encounters with Chinese Hermits
           Changnan Mountains
                      Emptiness

A lot of little poems
Writing in the night
Alex teaching in Tucson
Sor Juana's mystic flight

Take my son to work
Keep him in the way
A little dailiness
A little si xie xie

        un pequito pray

Kamakura snow
          Rieko
             yo

Just one of the people
Not an important man
Slowly guacamole
Bruce Springsteen fan

Tired. Exoplanets.
Aware of the coming Night
To sleep perchance to dream
Gatsby's sweet green light

                       Salud!

City of Ember
  The Giver
      Flush

Teaching Carl Hiaasen
             Florida
              Flush

my sons sledding
   still so young
            fun!

Please protect my boys
              forward
                  hope!

He plays video games
I watch and worry
Slowly going forward
Day by day by day

Get him to work and money
Will Ferrell is funny
Encounters with Chinese Hermits
Silent is the Way

Christmas dinner was nice
Vietnam comes near
No snow below
Hold my children dear

I need a little rest
Courage in the fear
Get my son from work
Hope for the new year

                 Aqui. Here.

Worry for my son
Slowly. Little steps.
Gonna take some time
            Courage.

Vietnam on Christmas
         decades pass
              children

Shakespeare in Staunton
Snow all aglow
Julius Caesar as cautionary
Dr. Cohen told us so

I was twice in London
Mozart Christmas Eve
Friends from my high school -
Hutch, Mike, and Steve

I'll die and be forgotten
Please, Life, protect my sons
The American Abyss
Please give up your guns

I read the Writer's Almanac
Like the little way
Silent in the Night
Silent si xie xie

Just one of the people
Not a leader, not a follower
Maybe a Markson man
In but not of America

Shinkansen in the night
Lost in Translation
Philosophy
Ancient things, Wedding rings

55 and falling
Drifting toward death
Drawn to monasteries
Libraries of glass and wood

Lovely Susan Meek
Every man needs a muse
Seattle in the summer
Reno in the snow

                  El Futuro ...

Christmas Eve, we're all together
If only for a time
Gratitude, Gratitude
I reach for rhythm and rhyme

My family, My family
Troubled, we make it through
Christmas Eve together
Together, troubled, true

David Markson
       Yellow
        Selah

In My Letter to You
I told the troubled truth
Ghost of my soul
Joy of my youth

55 and falling
Haunted man, Haunted mind
Nevermore, Baltimore
I hope you treat me kind

Worry for my son
Worry down the line
Relentlessly the worry
I've got a worried mind

Slowly, patience, slowly
Keep him, keep him calm
In Dublin meant to be
In Gilead the balm

                   hope!