He used the word gift
And I have read The Giver

Don't want a transition to sameness
I want the River

Jonas can see Beyond
At times I can too

Like seeing the passing lanes
Here comes one for you

When you get it
Shoot it through

                                    2!

Georgetown grey stone
      my mom's death
               alone

The Monolith as movie screen.
And cell phone.

George W. Lies
Americans consent
       the Abyss

So I have a thing with 37
Know not what it means
Also 72
Also in betweens

Jonas can See Beyond
Sometimes so can I
So can Richard Parker
So can salmon fly

Taipei American School
Mississippi Bridge
1 is the loneliest number
Ravioli in the fridge

Gratitude and fear
Anxiety and her
She whispers in my ear
But there is no cure

           boundaries blur

basketball as meditation
       empty hoop, elevation
               swish, swish, swish ...


                Mason Nation!

Cold Mountain - no through trail
         Hong Kong - will truth prevail?
                  Taipei, Taiwan - my travel tale...

                                  wonton on
                                  second son

Leaving San Francisco Bay
Heading for Hong Kong harbor
See an old friend, good for the soul

New Year shines from the water
Fireworks above, gentle waves below
Mutation my salvation and goal

Time to leave the past behind:

                               Dropping off
                                                 body
                                                        and
                                                              mind

Vertiginous. Hitchcockian. Shamanistic.
                       Mystic.

The man who lives on dreams
Has nothing there at all

The man who lives on fear
Builds a Border Wall

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Very, very tall

The Irish bar in Charlotte
Maggie's Farm ya'll

For skeptics synchronicity
Is mere Chance
The law of very large numbers

For others
It's like Irish dance
And sympathic Polish plumbers

For me, I'm not sure
It happens
But what does it mean?

I certainly am not pure
But I do
Like the wearin'  o' the Green

And some Stranger Things
I indeed have seen.

              (starting in summer
                            2015.             )

It's true I saw this comin'
But I'm not a prophet

Just someone who remembers
When the lost ones have forgot it

I'd like to live in Dublin
Or shall I say Taipei?

I'd like to live in peace
But that's not the American way

Stockholm again? Maybe someday!

America as a ******* country
        money up their ***
             Trumpfucked

madness is rare in individuals
yet in epochs and groups it is the rule

the future will find American insanity
when they teach our current time in school

Alas, across a lot of the American scene
               Karma now Queen
          Can you see what I mean?
                             2019

The President of ignorance, fear, lying
       decency destroyed and dying
             many no longer trying ...

                        mystifying.

against the American Absurd
   the wish to write the word
          truly Trumpfucked

Oh the isolation
Awake at 2 a.m.

Keep on thinking of her
Loneliness again

Time is an ocean
This time is time my friend?

Because the Night
Magic spell to send

     Let's pretend!

Highwater almost Everywhere
A country that doesn't even care
            American Despair.

The chaos, the utter chaos
Of contemporary America

                Collapse

Wounded by time and sin and Fate
Barbarians in the White House
Not just at the Gate


I hope and pray it's not too late.

again soft morning light
           mellow yellow white
                    high hopes they will write...


                       gentlemen

Seasons come, Seasons go
the world just turns and turns
goodness also sometimes shows ...


             Time to feel the Bern!

basketball and bookstores and beaches
realities remaining out of reaches
I silently study; she silently teaches ...

                            AX

MUFON in my email - again seen
  Infinity at BP - her hair green
             hints and guesses


          but what does it mean?

They say dying is actually difficult
Life clings and clings

30 plus years later
No phone call rings

Vegetarian tacos
Not much bling

Lonely as a cloud
Pegasus has wings

The Americans are Donald Trump
And he is surely them

They (barely) voted him out this time
But his kind will be back again

393 million guns
Have you seen her Zen?

I thank life for basketball
Canada, muy bien!

               I pretend.

It's just my inner drama
Comes out as thousands of poems

Yes, a sensitive
Can you see me when I show 'em?..

I like volleyball
And delicious chana masala

Rumi was a master
Poetry of Allah

I'll probably be forgotten
But I remember Dr. Thomas

In the years that still remain
Help me keep my promise

                     Amen.

awake again all night
I'd like to be medieval

but I'm in 2012
in America turned evil

oh! those Kyoto temples
ah! those French cathedrals

ye gods! the Trumpfuck mobs
is the country beyond retrieval?

Not good at friendship
Not good with women
Not good with organized
Not good with swimmin'

In my solitude
Haunted by the past
All things pass away
Nothing. Nothing lasts.

Now I'm 52
Ever ancient, Ever new
Muslim, Christian, Jew
What then left to do?

2023
My year to wait and wait
Pregnant silences
Destiny, not Fate

I read the Guardian
Candidates debate
Exoplanets spin
A little help for Cate

Exoplanets spin
Something radiates
I walk the Empty Diamond
I watch the license plates

I watch and wait and wonder
Formulate my plans
Patientia
Solitary Man

          Will they understand?

Ignorant religion
***** universities
A nation of cowards

         Sliding ...

I don't like women intellectuals
The male ones aren't much better
2023
Still I can't forget her

Books, yes
Movies
Restaurants
Sleep

         Promises to keep

Do I have a Destiny?
Am I but dust and shadow?
Is Judi on my team?
Did I turn on Susan's lights?

How can I get her help?
Would she take it if I got it?
Does Wendy see now?
How does she feel about me?

Am I supposed to do anything?
Why the predatory terror?
We meet again or no?
One of These Nights?

Will I get to Seattle?
Ever leave the country again?
Was the man in Dublin correct?
These coincidences be ...?

                     2023?

She would have to come here
And that's not gonna happen
So, my dear,
What should I do?

2023
I wait. I wait.
Children grow
Carolina blue

Rainin' Hard in Frisco
Susan, not Sue
Every Rose Has It's Thorn
Pi has the Pondicherry Zoo

           I ain't got you

Vietnam on Christmas
         decades pass
              children

Ambivalent about the professors
Some wonderful! Some arrogant ******.
Could I be a classic?
Chinese temple sticks

Archbishop Oscar Romero
Murdered during Mass
My blue soccer shirt
El Salvador drives past

Hablas Espanyol
Pero solamente un pequito
Heard Cornel West lecture
At the University of Toledo

Tired after work
Gonna take a bath
Donald J. Trump
American sociopath

             2024

My job was words
I was a teacher
Read those paperback books

Babette comes from Paris
Uppsala
She stirs and cooks

I too in Uppsala
Charming
Swedenborg's tomb

Election 2024
Trumpfucks and Trumpwhores
American Doom?

politics is what divides us
and we stand divided
Frank Sinatra this morning
music coincided

Trump is American Bad News
I'm lonely as the rain
Dixie Chicks, Netflix
Man of La Mancha, Spain

Harper's Ferry today
Say hi to John Brown
The Zealot and the Emancipator
Downbound Train, Scarlet Town

                    2024?

Serious as a heart attack
              patience
             resistance

it's 2 o'clock in the morning
but i had no idea

out shootin' hoops
can't see far from heah

Celtic Cross at midnight
one dear deah

in 5th grade lovely Laura
sat next to lovely Leah

           See ya!

Maryland is boring
But I like Baltimore
Rainy Inner Harbor
2034

Therapy for my son
Keep him right on track
Nixon destroyed Cambodia
George W. destroyed Iraq

2 prayers for Pope Francis
The troubled Catholic Church
Hair-handed monks
Mystics in my search

Susan Darlene Meek
Dark hair, blue eyes
La Florida the Land of Flowers
I tries. I tries.

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?

All men are created equal
But all women are definitely not
Buddhamind in Bangkok
Tremendum at Angkor Wat

Me at JMU
UVA was Scott
Ry is Virginia Tech
I post and play and plot

Just a few rooms
I do not own a yacht
Als Ick Kan
Give the best I got

      2037. What?

I'd like to live in Sweden again
Or maybe Irish green

My favorite middle school book
Still is Things Not Seen

Don't want the red or white
Do like twilight blue

2037
For my sons be true

I don't have to be perfect
Just have to do my best
Probably I am nothing
To her I true confessed

I keep on mailing fighting
Silence for the rest
Postcard poetry
Future for the fest?