A little sweet tea
I gotta go to the bank
Hardest thing about atheism
Nobody to thank

My son's about to go to college
Please, life, guide him through
A little sweet tea
And my love for you

                      'tis true

Troubled soul
       Worry
        hope!

Lonely as the rain
    Downbound Train
                 Aging

Rick Steves in Spain
       Purple Rain
               Ole!

Dr. Thomas
Help me keep my promise

                     Amen.

Sleeping all day
Callooh! Callay!
        xie xie

There is no life after death
Is there life before?
Misty rain Seattle
Inner Harbor, Baltimore

            Forgotten lore.

Anxiety. Diabetes. Please ...

So much sleeping
Grey day blues
          Rest

I'm not in good health
Got the diabetes
Sleeping through the day
Aging, aging, aging

Gonna see my son
Keep him, keep him close
Ordinary living
In Dublin meant to be

                     Si.

So much worry
        Slowly
          hope

California Coast
    Tidal pools
          Grey

Just ordinary life
Text my son, sleep the day
A little Chinese food
For which I say xie xie

Ordinary life
Nothing bipolar, nothing grand
Text my son
E Street Band

                   day by day

My son does Legos
  The Great Wave
           Arigato

isolation
   solo
    ah!

Worry for my son
Gotta get him through
Maybe FCC
Maybe GMU

Worry, steady worry
Carolina blue
Hope
For you!

.........aging.........
    no contact
in my solitude

No one important
Unknown. Alone.
            Solo

.........Reno sky........
Black smoke billowing
   Aye! Aye! Aye!

Quiet gym
  Shooting
       Yes

Reno snow
  Sledding
My boys!

in my solitude
relentlessly I age
time tick tocks
slowly turn the page

not too good at friendship
all she is is rage
Mr. Johnny Cash
Break My Rusty Cage

Just playing with words
Kamakura snow
Misty Seattle rain
I don't really know

Fatherhood is difficult
And I love them so
Courage going forward
Yoko yo yo yo yo!

Poems from my dreams
Just a feeling, impression
Try to find a word
Waking and it goes

I miss my basketball team
My letter was confession
Yes, it's all Absurd
O those Seattle snows!

               Solitude

Missed chance
Basketball
Horse with no name

Just a nightmare
Guilt, anxiety, terror
         I wake up.

San Francisco fog
Moroccan mint tea
               Si

Basketball my whole life
   Practicing, Playing, Coaching
                  Happiness

Reno sky
Sage Ridge School
Basketball

I'm drawn to sleep as I age
                Fearless
                 Dreams

A little poetry
A little bit of travel
Dinner with my family
A night of fearless sleep

                   Release.

In Reno it's the big blue sky
In California it's the coast
She haunts my aging nights
A kind of teenage ghost

I too will pass away
Vanish with a trace
Her ****, **** voice
The beauty of her face

                    Space!

I can't find the words
Don't know what to say
Got the diabetes
Poe, Finn, and Rey

I'm up in the night
Sleep in the day
Hugs, she said to me
Silently I pray

            xie xie

Northern Virginia isn't ****
But it's solid, steady, stable
Once I was a teacher there
Now I am disabled

Postcards in the mail
Books upon the table
3 Korean shamans
7 Chinese fables

                 the Way

Timor mortis conturbat me
Will it come at night?
Will I be in pain?
Will I be in fright?

Please protect my sons, O Life!
They need a little light
And a little fun
Sor Juana's mystic flight

                     Alright!

So much driving
Get him safely home
      Sleep in peace.

He says poetry is eternal graffiti
Written in the hearts of everyone:

                       **** Trump!

Frederick, Maryland is ordinary
I just drive my car
Home a little late
Exoplanet star

Childhood recedes
I like Irish bars
Kells in Seattle
Distances so far

                          Singing!

25,000 poems
Maybe 1 gets through
           14U

California dreamin'
San Francisco Zen
Moroccan mint tea
Ah! What might have been

                  Pretend.

I'm not an academic
I no longer teach
Everything I want
Forever out of reach

First time I kissed her
That night at the beach
No words. No words.
Beyond all speech

Just the ordinary
   Passes away
     Si xie xie

Poems on rocks
Medieval alleyways
California Coast
Burning down the days

Lake Tahoe in the winter
Let me count the ways
Moroccan mint tea
Respite in the Maze

                  Oles! :)

Strange dream
Air Force blues
My brain insane
Got no clues

Wake up sickly
Pay my dues
First rock concert:
Huey Lewis

           And the News.

Disturbing
   Agonia
  Silencio

Reno to the sea
Wasn't meant to be
Please protect my 3

       xie xie ni

Santa Rosa son
         2013
   home birth!

Crossing the Baltic
Young sons sung
      Trappist 1!

Fog on the Golden Gate
              Dim Sum
                Xie Xie

Springsteen in Oakland
     Dylan in Berkeley
           California!