Soup dumplings for dinner
Memories of Taipei
Tired. Exoplanets!
Dawn goes down to day

Gotta work tomorrow
Can't find words to pray
Something radiates
Lay, lady, lay

         Californ I A!

24 hours in Seoul
Flight back from Taipei
Shamans in the mountains
Silent is the Way

Do a little laundry
Down goes down to day
Dinner with my son
Hidey hidey hidey hey!

I yearn to escape America
              Silence
                 Sigh

The short ride to the cemetery
                    silence

                    Silence.

Lunch with my son
Slowliness
Soon his job
Day by day

Keep him close
Protection!
Gracias
Si xie xie

My children in Europe
               Danke
               trains!

No one important
Slowly go
Seattle rain
Reno snow

Aging. Aging.
Never know
Fatherhood
Tokyo

          So ...

I long to escape America
But I know I never will
I was in Vienna once
Oh! the snowfall thrill

California Coast
Tidal pools in Monterrey
If she were here, if she were here
Don't know what I'd say

                        Porque...

Fatherhood is difficult
I'm awake in the night
Give him good judgement
Give him mystic flight

Just the little poems
Rain, blessed rain
Kobayashi Issa
Tokyo bullet train

         Tray aya ayain!

Don't really wanna live
Don't really wanna die
Susan Darlene Meek
Exoplanet sky

           Aye! Aye! Aye!

My youngest son's bedroom
               space Legos
                     hope

Vertigo two days ago
Yes, I get afraid
Makes me paranoid
Hesitant, worried

Please, Life, protect my son
My darling middle one
Only just begun

                  Please.

Democracy means demagogues
But I don't look for philosopher kings
Troubled daily life
Pain that living brings

Rainstorm today
My family on a train
Ms. Susan Meek
Runnin' round my brain

             Can't explain.

Driving, eating, driving
Got the grey day blues
Boredinary, Maryland
Not quite as I'd choose

Talk to my friend, Bob
Fondly JMU
Twilight comes around
Rothko green and blue

                Falling ...

Frederick, Maryland
   ordinary blues
              hope

resistance for 1 day
  time with my son
            xie xie

.....56.....
Absurd
Words!

muddle through somehow
               patience
                  hope

Tahoe in the winter
Such a lovely sight
California Coast
Sor Juana's mystic flight

Santa Rosa son
Mother Mary might
San Francisco Zen
Abgescheidenheit

Little poems
Little way
Fearless sleep
Si xie xie

Fatherhood
Day by day
Gratitude
Si xie xie

        Ole!

I wish, but wish in vain
          Purple Rain
     La Mancha, Spain

Sound and fury and chaos
I just lay in bed
3:45 a.m.
Blue State not red

Something good for Q
Courage in the Dread
Carolina blue
Angels fear to tread

               Onward!

Misty rain Seattle
California sun
3 days in Vienna
Taipei 101

Some good thing to do
Before my day is done
Something Thai, something true
Plus un pequito fun

                      Nitnoy

America began in genocide
Slave labor all around
Call me Ishmael
Foreign where I'm found

Misty rain Seattle
Singing at night at Kells
In Dublin meant to be
We are the Witherells

                   Escape!

Snowfall shunyata
Kamakura Buddha
      just sitting

Every insight is terrifying
Everyone lives and dies alone
University of Chicago
I threw a Rolling Stone

Jerusalem to Vienna
Honeymoon in Rome
Temples at Angkor Wat
Very far from home

                   Ole!

Give a soul a night of fearless sleep
                    Dreaming
                       Mom!

Woke up from a scary dream
I just lay in bed
Protection for my sons
After I am dead

Plus a little fun
Her hand upon my head
2037
Wonder where we're led?

My family in Vienna
Let them play in peace
Modern Istanbul
More than Ancient Greece

I drift, I drift toward death
Snowfall shunyata
Desperately Seeking Susan
Madonna's Kabbalah

                      Ah!

Mortality
   Sadness
      Silence

Asks David Markson

According to Anonymous

56
late along?
Springsteen song.

In gratitude for my boys
               Patience
                 Please...

Almost zero influence
         Persistence
           Patience

Contemporary ethical theories
                   Dr. Lippke
                      Despair

I'm not too fond of the professors
Or rather, I'm ambivalent
A toast to the teachers!
Money well spent

I've seen a few museums
Walked alone in Seattle snow
56 now. Tired.
How much more to go?


               I don't know.

not a great country
not a great people
not a great army
not a great steeple

quiet music
loved ones dear
day by dailiness
fight back fear

       aqui. here.

I like the little poems
Slowly. Day by day.
Exoplanets spin
Nothing gold can stay

O the isolation!
Mother Mary May
O the isolation!
Silent is the Way

I sleep more as I age
Despair falling down
A few months in Ireland
When Love Comes to Town

The sadness will last forever
Wendy late along
George Mason University
Mr. Harry Wong

         Springsteen songs!

The garden of 1000 sighs
           fearless sleep
                   hope

Depression
     Sleep
      Sigh

Not a saint
Proclivities
Susan Meek
Cosmic seas

Dailiness
Slowly go
Seattle rain
Reno snow

Do my best
Day by day
Proclivities
Silent Way

    xie xie

Low on my birthday
Slowly go
Baltimore rain
Reno snow

One life only
Never know
Flickers of childhood
Ohio

David Markson
New York City
        Joan

No one important
      Daily life
      My sons!

Feeling old tonight
My birthday is tomorrow
56 it's true
Rainfall so much sorrow

1969
1987
3710
Bert be home Blyleven

3 beautiful sons
Keep them, Life, along
Hitch Hikin'. Hitch Hikin'.
My parents in the song

                      56!

Rain again tonight
      Missing you
        La Florida