I admit I like cathedrals
Especially in snow
Hagia Sophia
But born too late I know

Grateful for my sons
In my solitude
Did what I did
Now I do not intrude

1 is the loneliest number
And a little peace
Hello Gamla Stan
Farewell Ancient Greece

           Time release.

Leonardo da Vinci was a vegetarian
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a vegetarian
Kafka was a vegetarian
Pythagoras was a vegetarian
Shelley was a vegetarian

Etc...

don't quite believe in magic
but we had a sweet jet Black Lab

life in the end is tragic
Father Greeley and the cab

in autumn the dead return
he spoke fondly of Samhain

I've got a Halloween Head
wayfaring strangers in my brain!

72 and 37
Multiple times today
Still don't know, still don't know
Precisely what it means

Gordon Lightfoot on my player
Sundown
Moonglow
Time for a summertime dream

Been to Canada several times
Not yet Mexico
Like Jonathan Swift
Horizontal vertigo

May is Mary's month
May day is Beltane
Angelica at the bank
Fernando Suarez Spain

               La Florida!

A bit dangerous
That's the truth
A bit too far
A bit uncouth

Step by step
By step by step
Take it slow
Need for rest

Madness comes
And madness goes
Emotion runs
And overflows

Step by step
By step by step
Wait.
Leapt.

      Patientia

Like Batman
Emily Dickinson was reclusive
Like Superman
A Fortress of Solitude

I spend much time alone
But I am not a hermit
Drive my son to work
Eat at the little diner

Unde Malum?
Tormented Saint Augustine
Tormented Camus
Writing often ensued

I visited Amherst
This World Is Not Conclusion
Mabel Loomis Todd
World of strange designer

              Wild Nights

Does God have a Dark Side?
Yes, I think She does
Frightening indeed
Wind to water was

Stranger Than Fiction
Her father is a priest
Her dad a Simple Man
Prisoners get released

Un pequito Spanish
Vegetarian burritos
John F. Savage Hall
University of Toledo

Saw my brother today
I got a Ticket to Ride
2072
After I have died

              Tyrannicide!

Ms. Tlaib is correct
Heard this from a trucker

It is indeed time to go in there
And impeach that *******.

99 percent of all living creatures
Die by being eaten alive

This predatory terror
Is the way predators survive

I am a vegetarian
My parents named me Todd

Yesterday at St. Thomas More
I ate the Lamb of God

Albert Camus against the Absurd
  We can too with wisdom words
     A rebel who lives unassured

             Join the Resistance!
             Trumpism interred

Might as well write the poems
What else can I do?
I drift, I drift towards death
Surely you do too
Walks upon the beach
Sky and sea greenblue
Rothko in my mind
Colors fade to hue

         Seattle U.

The sadness weighs heavy
I walk, but only slow
The lights in the park are lovely
Solamente yo

53 and falling
One man come and go
53 and falling
Seattle cedarsnow

I sent my letter to you
Dublin, Ohio
Pondicherry Zoo
Tzimzum overflow

Never right without the girl
But she always slips away
The pain inside my heart
Live to cry another day

          Pero - still xie xie

no heroics, quite a bit of boredom
            fair share of rejection
          more often ignored and

if I’m a character in my life story
my role is listener, quiet glory

I watch, I learn, I love the songs
I add my verse and wander along

reader, thinker, troubled soul, dad
traveler, obsessive, probably a bit mad.

existential horror
yet still the stars shine down

light deep in the darkness
a stranger comes to town

things not as they appear
just ask the cap and gown

this weird wild world I wander
I smile despite my frown

Hard to admit to myself
I want to be remembered
Maybe because of the breakup
Maybe Life of Pi

Some good thing
Some thing that sings
Before my time to die

              Aye! Aye! Aye!

Said David Bowie.

Stanley Yelnats
          Hannah
              Bob,

Knock Knock

Who’s there?

Just some guy.

Just some guy who wants cake?

No.

Why?

I prefer pi.

I have an anxiety disorder
Me too, she said
Me laying there in pain
In the hospital bed

Thank you, Life, for my sons
Help me fight the Nameless Dread
Slowly guacamole
Lotta love before I'm dead

Our politics Abysmality
I walk the little way
Red Pine's beauty book
Basketball to play

Will I live in libraries?
Will I callooh! callay!?
Tired. Exoplanets.
Tired. Si xie xie.

Solitude is loneliness
And peace. And dropping slow.
Have not been to Greece
Istanbul in snow!

Know No Golden Fleece
Yoko yo yo yo yo
Sting and the Police
On and on we go

        Synchronicity!

tyranny comes from democracy
noticed wise old Plato

Demagogues duly arise
the people’s prejudicial fears they know

If Plato we’re living now
he’d be unsurprised by American racehate

Democracy abandons philosophy, he saw
the Ignorant then claim this replace Great

I can't find what I'm looking for
Still unsatisfied
American politics is hideous
George W. Lied

Maybe the Gulf of Mexico
Cannot be denied
I wish she would say:
He was one who tried.

I see you out there
Though I don't see you
You have beautiful hair

      courage. endurance.

Studio Ghibli postcards
Have them in my sight

Human beings are not eternal
We face Eternal Night

I go down lost and lonely
But not without a fight

I like unique stamps
Uniquities alight

                 Ravenflight

The Special Olympics and Istanbul
 sweet and kind, I leave Subway full
   We speak The Princess Bride, Inigo's pull


    As you wish, may your life fulfill.

a different type of man
         no soldier - to Asia as he can
                     Vienna and Poland ....


                    Embers.

Qboy dancing with Lee-tal’s cousins
late into the Tel Aviv night,
driving back from the ceremony
to Jerusalem

The jazz club in Tokyo
after the ceremony,
gratefully talking with Rieko and Takahiro
thrilled to soon see Kyoto

Yes, Rabbi Hillel, every bride is beautiful.

not really out of this world
      but which world is this world, I said

the love of just one woman-girl
       the hotel and the beach and the bed

the Dragon Scroll finally unfurled
        nothing is there so instead

Master Oogway like the YinYang is
                                                       twirled
All Daoists see through the Dust that is
                                                        red.

The good, the bad, the ugly
I told her truly the truth
2 women from my past
2 women from my youth

Time slips by
Death crawls close
Awake in the night
Heath Ledger Overdose

               ChiTown!

This life and the next
Could it really be?

Do we disappear
Like a droplet in the sea?

Do we begin again
Even endlessly?

Do we sleep forever?
Do we dream our destiny?

There is no evidence for the soul
But its absence
Nothing, nothing, nothing

The body to the soil
The soul slips away

I'm grateful today for bocce ball
Green and red all morning

I was in Italy once
Cathedral in Siena

Felt the Tuscan sun
Silently to pray

    Italy. Verily. Yea.

Yo espero
At least sometimes
And yo despair

I'm gonna fade away
Like I was never there

Snowfall Shunyata
Kyoto. County fair.

Ambiguity
Do the deed and dare.

          Batflare.

lifelong death obsession
deathlong, life intention
headstrong, music mention ...

                  I want you to Stay!

The discovery of extraterrestrial life
Would be a serious game changer

Talk about a cosmic form
Of welcoming the Stranger

I watch the telescopes
I watch the scifi dangers

I wonder if the Starchild
Is up there born in a manger?

The beauty of that deer
Episcopal church, no fear

Sleeping in the grass
Celtic Cross I pass

Tears to wipe away
Nothing gold can stay

My My, Hey Hey

It's in play. I can feel it.
           It's in play.

Por favor. Patientia. Xie Xie.

Obie Dziedzic photo
    but truly, I don’t know though
               holy I-just-hope-so!

Never worked with women
But hey now! that's alright
1 is the loneliest number
This world is Fright on Fright

Teaching is a difficult job
Especially in the USA
If she knocked on my door tonight
We might drive to Santa Fe

Dante saw Beatrice twice
I guess I don't really pray
Please protect my sons, O Life!
From cannonballs on the 5th of May

                    Monterrey!

So in another life
We have a daughter
Looks like her
Writes like me

Europa Report
Ocean water
Ecuador
3733

       We.

Some people don't pray
Some people can't

I'm stayin' with Aunt Sally
But ya know she's not really my aunt

Food truck tonight
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Been to New Orleans once
Never Texarkana

Not really a southerner
Though I've lived years in the South

At times not even American
Despite such sounds from my mouth

More like an expat
Wandering Bangkok to Rome

Human life is exile.
Where, O where is home?

Sean Hannity
American insanity

American Catholic hater
Like an ignorant Darth Vader

Trumpfuck found on Fox
Bootlicker of Trump's socks

Send him to the Abyss
Unmourned and unmissed

                 Adios Thanos!

the times are nihilistic
yet life still lumbers on

consumption and confusion
coming Night not dawn

the American Abyss
amidst Trumpist traitor pawns

the Empire is utterly boring
they hate, they insult - I yawn.

So she sits in the library
Long brown hair
Iced coffee
Embers by Sandor Marai

Last night
She read one of my poems
Dublin. Bangkok. Taipei.
Graphic design

The monk's eyes were closed
Decapitated statues
Kings
Chris Pine

Kings
Sacramento
David Markson
American Decline

                  Johnny 99

Ultima Thule
cosmica newly
Revolution unruly

Dogen in meditation through the night
Shabu Shabu we silently ate

I from hospitalizations return to fight
Fall 7 times, Rise up 8

Hemingway insisted Zelda once asked him.

madness in the human realm
but rainfall ya'll all night

the Americans so ignorant
things don't work out right

once we cycled Stockholm
trains across Taiwan

Vienna aglow in snow
I miss Gamla Stan

a brief little life
then forever gone

I've written all these poems
Not one step closer
In my solitude
2 green lights

Life is rain on pain
Thankful for my son
Taipei 101
Awake in the Night

possibly coincidence, possibly karma
               Corvallis, no malice
   first repeated threats, then God bless

        even now, I don’t understand
           unforeseen, unplanned
                          Victor