19 years old
     Camus
       JMU

I think of you, dear reader
Riding on the train
Moroccan mint tea
Santiago, Spain

Thank you for your attention
Passing in the night
A little memory
A little mystic flight

Un Escritor
Or so at least I hope
Maybe 4044
Maybe a female Pope

Sunlight on the water
Ashes to the sea
Disappear forever
Still xie xie ni

                  Si.

I like the quiet
Monasteries
A few books
Little libraries

Kindly women
Aging priests
Kamakura snow
Mystic East

       release

Life is suffering
Suffering is caused by desire
Fr. Greeley spoke the truth
George W. Liar

Rainy Tokyo
Rieko be my friend
American despair
Politics Portends

3 prayers for Taiwan
Won ton soup at night
Buddhamind in Bangkok
Gatsby's sweet green light

    Sor Juana's mystic flight

....Catholicism....
   highly visual
          colors

David Markson in New York City
                   Als Ick Kan
                         Joan

Honeymoon in Rome
Toured Vatican City
Beautiful tour guide
Flew back home

Rick Steves in Barcelona
Me in Copenhagen
Soren Kierkegaard
Just a little light

In gratitude for my life
Despite my flaws and faults
One life only
Disappear forever

                   What might have been
                               O Heather!

We never meet our Maker
God forever Unknown
Time tick tocks
I threw a Rolling Stone

In Dublin meant to be
In Vienna beautiful snow
Taipei, Taiwan typhoons
Train to Tokyo

Just to do my best
Will I die at night?
Ashes to the sea
Floating green light

          Well, alright!

Transgender Pope
against certainty
          Conclave

No one important
Try again
Day by day
Slow

Not much hope
Callooh! Callay!
Sorrow Songs
Nope

Solitude
Isolation
Sleep alone
Yo

O my sons!
Forward please
Do your best
Espero

Bruce Springsteen's music
Concert in Detroit
All the softfall snow
Somewhere Across the Border

55 and falling
Sinful proclivities
American despair
Please, baby, please

Gratitude for my sons
Try to be a good dad
Un pequito fun
Sweet Sir Galahad

Time is the Cross
Watch that river run
The Buddha sits in silence
Susan. La Florida.

                     Sun!

I think I might have wanted
To be important
It's a good thing I am not
3 prayers for Ry
7 hopes for Scott
Some good thing to do
Before I too am not

             El futuro!

no one important
lonely little life
3 beautiful sons
1 ****** wife

         strife.

The election looms, is dangerous
American Despair
Tuesday, November 5th
Highwater Everywhere

Wait. I wait patiently.
My sons callooh! callay!
Wake and sleep. Sleep and wake.
Silent is the Way.

Gonna see Conclave
See it with my son
Plato and Aristotle
Philosophy 101

Persistent proclivities
Lonely all alone
Hope for the Flowers
Rolling Stone

Movies and music
Travelin' man
Als Ick Kan
The best that I can

Sleep late and long
Drivin' around
Rattle and Hum
When Love Comes to Town

Reno! Reno!
Big blue open sky
Billowing smoke
Why, Judi, Why?

Drive to the coast
San Francisco to die
Moroccan mint tea
I Thai Wai

              Fly!

no one important
write from the times
memories return
cranberry lime

sunlit Stockholm
cycling the sea
Carolina Inn
my baby and me

Hope for the Flowers
silent despair
walk home all alone
County Fair! County Fair!

55 and falling
Grateful for sons
Dear Dublin. Dear Dublin.
Rattle and Hum

no one important
dead in the end
young sons sung
silence pretend

fond of little Reno
shunyata snow
kindness. compassion
o we o we o!

If you want to see
How a music video
Can take us to another level

After you read this little poem
Websurf over to YouTube
And watch Springsteen's
Night with the Jersey Devil.

Waiting in the airport
Baltimore at night
Such sorrow in my soul!
Sor Juana's mystic flight

Tired. Dailiness.
I yearn for foreign shores
Als Ick Kan

                     Yours,

                        tdw

In my solitude
Wander to and fro
Susan in the ****
But I'll never know

55 and falling
Take it easy, Take it slow
One life only
Yoko yo yo yo yo!

I still like Cathedrals
But I never go
Reno in the rain
Seattle in the snow

Speeding bullet trains
1 night in Tokyo
Minority Report
Rivers overflow

I'll die alas unknown
Solamente yo
Silent shunyata
Silent. Silent. So ...

the sorrow never goes away
slowly dailiness
try to be a good dad
painful I confess

Shakespeare in Staunton
And at Sage Ridge School
Cordelia is truly noble
Harold Bloom was a fool

Coastal California
Tidal pools in Monterrey
Encounters with Chinese Hermits
Silent is the Way

                     xie xie

Life is suffering
Help me suffer through
My Irish eyes are green
But I'm Carolina blue

Als Ick Kan
The best that I can do
Me alone in the library
At Seattle U.

                 1992

55 and falling
callooh! callay! my sons
o so serious
pero un pequito fun

amateur poetry
before the day is done
Tokyo to Kyoto
Taipei 101

crazy dreams all night
wake up feeling tired
Gatsby's sweet green light
focused. inspired.

talk to my youngest son
I love you. see you soon.
Rothko green
Flaming June

flawed heroes
sleep. snake.
silent shunyata

3 days in Vienna
Flight from Jerusalem
St. Stephansdom above
Me solo below

Hot chocolate, bookshop, snow.

Yes, Dr. Freud - to love and to work.

DC tonight
Wizards
       us

I'd like to die quietly
Quietly. No big deal.
I wonder if Eliade is right:
Only the paradigmatic is the real.

I like books and music
Basketball to play
All over forever
Still I say xie xie.

i like e.e. cummings
exoplanet sky
some good thing to do
before my time to die

55 and falling
still i try to try
awake at 3:15
why, judi, why?

It had to be poetry
Just had to be
55 and falling
Please protection for my 3

In Dublin the Book of Kells
In Dublin meant to be
Spinning exoplanets
Water - xie xie ni.

I'm kinda California
San Francisco not L.A.
Encounters with Chinese Hermits
Silent is the Way

Lay in bed and lonely
Dawn goes down to day
I write telephonely
Still I say xie xie

She was a cheerleader
I was a basketball player
La Florida the Land of Flowers
My sweet romantic teenage nights

                Gatsby's green light ...

My oldest son is sleeping
Let him sleep in peace
In gratitude for fatherhood
Better than Ancient Greece

But I still like Heraclitus
Everything is Fire
Still like Pythagoras
Still troubled by desire

Carolina Inn
Susan Darlene Meek
O for just one night!
I seek I seek I seek ...

I miss Reno sometimes
Little Sage Ridge School
Black smoke in the sky
Sledding in the snow

Taught Julius Caesar
The Old Man and the Sea
Coached basketball
So ....

                    Yo!

There is no life after death
We disappear forever
Sacramento Mark
Sacramento Heather

Corpse to the fire
Ashes to the sea
Snowfall on the ocean
Shunyatally

Protection for my son
Protection quietly
Ordinary days
Si. Xie xie ni ...

55 and falling
Lady of the Lake
Chicago in the winter
Andrew Greeley. William Blake.

Vegetarian burritos
Lonely, silent nights
Misty Dublin rain
Two green lights

Please protection for my son
Get him back in school
Cordelia is truly noble
King Lear is a fool

Politics Portends
Please not Trump again
I sense the eternal silence
Silence be my friend

                    Amen.

European history
Asian bullet trains
Me alone in Vienna
Rick Steves in Spain

I'd like a different country
But I don't know where
Small Town, America
County fair! County fair!

Indian buffet
Vegetarian burritos
Slowly guacamole
University of Toledo

Spinning exoplanets
Extrasolar water
3 prayers for my sons
3 hopes for her daughters

                      Ole!

The Americans are idiots
Just talk to the Trump voters
Demagoguery
Decay, decline, despair

              Highwater Everywhere

The world is a kind of madhouse
I stay inside and rest
See my dad tomorrow
Qualyxian the Quest

Twice I was in London
Took the Oxford train
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Ireland again

Vegetarian tacos
Jarritos Mexican soda
The saga begins
Yo yo yo yo Yoda!

Up at night and writing
What else can I do?
She's a schizophrenic
Pondicherry Zoo

Father Greeley was a fighter
Chicago's Irish eyes
Told the truth about Iraq
George W. Lies

I've been to Arizona
Rode the Tucson Train
Somewhere Across the Border
Is the Purple Rain

She's also colossally selfish
Now I'm 55
Not doing very well
But grateful to be alive

                    I've ...

America is a land of hate
And fear of the Other
Migrants on the move
And I miss my mother

It began in genocide
Slave labor all around
Everybody knows
I am the newsboy of this town

It expanded through imperialism
Manifest Destiny
Another name for hatred
Destruction locally

Remember, ye Americans
The Albino Whale is White
The election is portentous
The coming American Night.

So many religious crazies
We need a little light
Maybe Istanbul
Cranberry juice with Sprite

Talking with my son
18 and working now
Please - happiness
Hopeful wedding vow

Maybe JMU
Keep him right on track
A little ACDC
A little Back in Black

               Thunderstruck!

............Sacramento..........
  Heather, Mark, Kathryn
             Coach Katz

Chicago in the snow
         Green light
         Fr. Greeley

San Francisco Zen Center
    the transience of all
               mint tea

Leonard Cohen in London
Sings Tower of Song
Me at GMU
Listening to Harry Wong

Once I was a teacher
Read books to the tweens
Holes, Hoot, Flush,
House of the Scorpion, Things Not Seen

Rick Steves in Barcelona
My honeymoon in Rome
Tokyo to Kyoto
Very far from home

Thank you, Takahiro
Rieko is quite kind
Taipei 101
Bangkok Buddhamind

                     Rain!

I went a little crazy
Just a little mad
Gandalf the White
Sweet Sir Galahad

She really is that wonderful
I really am a geek
Best wishes to you always
Susan Darlene Meek

Road **** tonight
3 dead deer
Fills me with horror
Then 3 live deer appear

I miss my youngest son
O protective spirits!
I try to tell her truth
But she cannot hear it