Nowhere to run to, baby
Nowhere to hide
Nothin' to do
I lie in bed inside
Once I walked in Stockholm
In Tokyo I did ride
Bullet train into the night
Rieko was the bride

            Arigato.

San Francisco Zen Center
        Silent meditation
              Gentle bow

Words are lies
Goes the Japanese proverb

Hence
Silent meditation

I was there
For Rieko's wedding

Amazement!
Fascination.

Kamakura Buddha
In the open snow

Mr. Miyagi teaches
Daniel he does show

I miss you
Tonight Rieko

Arigato
Tokyo

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

Paul Theroux travels Deep South
      As with Boston to Borges, words in my mouth
                      To make you see - quite vivid throughout …


                                       the Reader

The Reader

Cal, what did the Preacher talk about?

Calvin Coolidge: Sin.

What did he say about it?

Coolidge: He was against it.

All my love
All my hope
All my books
In vain

He said
He saw Prince
Amazing show
In Spain

Death is annihilation
The end
Of all
The pain

Bats
Cats
Rats
Bruce Wayne

All healing is temporary
But tonight I breathe in peace

Life itself is sickness
Death is a release

I have experienced synchronicity
Like the song by The Police

Socrates knew nothing
Wisest man in Ancient Greece

Plato was quite right
Society is the Great Beast

Vegetarian burritos
Now that's a sumptuous Feast!

                       Viva!

Grateful to God for the glasses
And for her helping me to see

Patience, calm for the vision
Still quite distantly

Protection for the children
Florida lives in me

Space Coast, but no boast
Tough humility

Into the Hidden Valley
But I only know the title

I asked in Ireland
I think about the Bible

Prayers for my friend Mark
California calls

Jumpshots with Joseph
My green basketball

    
    Around the World.

The darkness around us is deep
Ambiguity within
Good and evil side by side
Good and evil twin

I have a need to fight
Although I cannot win
Truth beyond my sight
Traveling with Huck Finn

Tolkien in Ireland
We at the museum
The Buddha too, a few of you
No I cannot see him

Breakfast now at IHOP
Cam Cam off to school
A prophet or a dreamer
Or a crazy ******* fool

                   Wait.

I saw the Monsignor smile
Though he didn't tell me why

So long Italian fascists
Time to say goodbye

Jesus King of the Universe
1925

If aliens are real and come here first
When and where will they arrive?

Col.  G.T. Weber:  You are on the top of everyone's list for translations.  
What is the meaning of the Sanskrit word for war?

Dr. Banks:  The desire for more cows.

my at times excessive momento mori
  so today we play, swimming story
     cucumber sushi, not yakitori...

                      arigato

Reiko in Staunton
     us in Nara

Deer park dear
     sayonara

cherry blossom beauty
      lovely Lara

snow falling on cedars
  dispelling Mara

Two weeks in Japan
Rieko's extreme generosity
Giving us enough money to travel
For the entire stay.

The silent speed of Shinkansen
Deer Park in Nara
Kyoto temples

Tokyo fish market
Tokyo jazz clubs
Tokyo umbrellas, trains, and rain

Jaw dropping amazement
Ah! I don't wanna home go

           Rieko and Takahiro
                      Arigato!

video games and basketball
         Harry Potter comes to call
                    all day together after all ...

                         fatherhood.

The fam safe in room 137 - IPads, cell phones, video games, Hawaiian pizza

Leaving the lobby, wondering as I’m
wandering the lamplit, moonlit empty lot

Good God, Emily!  It breathes indeed.

The fam safe
In room 137

Ipads, cell phones
Video games

Leaving the lobby
Wandering the parking lot

Good God, Emily!
It breathes indeed.

The fam safe in room 137
Ipads, cell phones, video games
I wander at midnight the parking lot:

Good God, Emily! It breathes indeed.

The fam safely inside room 137
Ipads, cell phones, video games
Leaving the lobby, Wandering the lot ...

                Good God, Emily!
               It breathes indeed.

the fam safely in room 137:  Ipads, cell phones, books
leaving the lobby, wandering the parking lot
         good God, Emily!  It breathes indeed.

Alone again, naturally
12:58
Discourse on Method
1637

Je suis American
Though, at times, devastate
Delaura Junior High
My basketball friend Kevin

Rainy Night in Georgia
Gonna have to wait
Cafe du Monde
Got my engine revvin'

Black dress, black lace
I have loved thee late
Yes, I am a Pirate
Bert be home Blyleven

              Double!

Mother, Mother Ocean!

Jimmy Buffet
A Pirate Looks at 40

Jimmy Buffet.
Mother Mother Ocean.

Shamanic sickness
Society itself is sick
poems like arrows

Worse than any Grand Inquisitor
Kierkegaard called anxiety

I agree, O Soren,
Though I try to fight with piety

Down on my knees to pray
Out in the trees to walk

In the local cafe
To talk and talk and talk

The flying eagle
The hunting hawk

As above, so below
Sidewalk chalk

Basketball is my favorite sport
Kick Kavanaugh off the Supreme Court

I'm watching and waiting; hey there, Wart
Once and Future to report

Professor X reads to students
Aristotle speaks of Prudence

Plato knows the mytic mutants
UNorth spread death pollutants

                            Arthur!

...Michael Clayton...
  horses and breath
         summons

What do you think they would do if Arthur went public?

What would they do? They're doin' it.

Shiva in Charlotte
         waking, walking, waiting
                   unhesitating

Mr. Markson points out.

The man on the basketball court told me.

Said Picasso

Wittgenstein believed.