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

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.

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!

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!

I'm kind of a joke
Endless hospitalizations
Trouble taking care of myself
Afraid all the time

I like Eliade
And Encounters with Chinese Hermits
St. Stephansdom Cathedral
Bruno's exoplanets

Star Trek is inspiring
So is the Batman
I spend a lot of time alone
Truly: exoplanets!

It ain't over yet, mom
Please intercede for 3
Please xie xie ni
Please we

                  Oui.

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

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

Stanley Yelnats
          Hannah
              Bob,

Knock Knock

Who’s there?

Just some guy.

Just some guy who wants cake?

No.

Why?

I prefer pi.

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!

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.

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

      courage. endurance.

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


                    Embers.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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!

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?

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.

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

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

                  I want you to Stay!

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

Por favor. Patientia. Xie Xie.

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!

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

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

I like writing the poems
Unburden my mind
Seek and seek, Ms. Meek
I hope you treat me kind

Snow is coming soon
In Bangkok Buddha find
55 and falling
Running out of time

                    I'm ....

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

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

to finally let the caution go
      write from the heart - just let it flow
                I love her intensely, will she ever know?

                                   it would be wonderful
                                       (not likely though)

Yo I get stupid
I shoot an arrow like Cupid
I use a word that don't mean nu'in like looptid.


- The Humpty Dance

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.

Let it be ambiguous
Let it be dark
Chapel Hill Jay
Sacramento Mark

Trust takes time
What rises must fall
Yearbook at Satellite
Reno study hall

Trust takes time
1:37
Wendy, Susan, Judi
Kevin

Ms. Susie had a Steamboat
Me on the Mekong River
Jonas can see Beyond
Just like the Giver

              Fiona!

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

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

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

Europa Report
Ocean water
Ecuador
3733

       We.

wandering, wandering UNC
   Franklin Street definitely
           southern me?

sky all purple and red
that’s really what he said

electric moment return
the sun at night still burns

crazy? then let’s go
motherless child I know

elevator and time no more
so punch to a Higher Floor

the beat, the sound, the sky
the beauty when doves do cry

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.

Ultima Thule
cosmica newly
Revolution unruly

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

Miss you
Really do
   So long ....

George W. Bush said, Bring ‘em on
And welcomed the World of Terror

Confidant he could kick its ***
No way he could make an error

Millions then died in Iraq
Grandpas and children and women

He lives in riches in his Texas home
In his fancy pool he’s swimmin’

Mass destruction may well be found
Sometime in the future

When historians see what he did
Cannot be healed by suture

The terror now is all around
Chickens home to roost

If America was just and not obscene
He would hang in public from a noose.

to fight the anxiety
   breath and memory
         courage to feel free

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?

They won't teach you this in Church
Because they are afraid of the stakes

But the terrible (and mysterious)
Truth is this:

                       Even God makes mistakes.

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.

Give her patience
Give her insight
Give her understanding

I fly
I fly by night
Quietly I'm landing

I am one who kneels
Then walks
Then boldly standing

Ecstasy reveals
Conversation
And commanding

       Wait for it!

Dogen in meditation through the night
Shabu Shabu we silently ate

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