Richmond to Baltimore
       Eureka - just so.
                  Poe

I am a man of intense obsessions
Some decades long
She said unexpected
I told her of the song

She said please stop
Now it's only silence
The Dark Knight will not ****
But he will fight with violence

Religions are obsessions
Because we have to die
UFOs and aliens
Trappistly to try

           Batman sky

Me: She has one blue eye and one grey eye. I've never seen that except in Huskies before.
Cool!

Her: Yes. That's why I named her Harvey. Like Harvey Dent in Batman.

Me: The Dark Knight? That movie had a big impact on me.

Her boyfriend: Me too.

I admit
I find The Batman very inspiring
Vigilant in the Night
Gotham's true protector

Roommate in Hong Kong
Wedding in Japan
Wedding in Tel Aviv
Can I resurrect her?

Still some coincidence
Reading Richard Rodriguez
Coach Brian Katz
Sacramento Heather

Waiting. Watching. Wishing.
A few experiments
Long term game
Follow the wind and the weather

                       Denver!

Rickey Henderson on third base
Takes a little lead

I have feared death for so long
In the end do you think I'll bleed?

Rickey takes a few small steps
In this world I ramble and roam

Slow throw back to the mound
Rickey stealing home:

                    Safe!

Anxiety and even terror
But I battle back the fear

Medicine and the mirror
Scarier when near

Summer cycling Stockholm
Seattle falling snow

Taipei 101
Lovely Toledo

You never know.

Interviewer:  Who is your greatest political influence?

George W. Bush: Christ. Because he changed my heart.

Father Andrew Greeley:  Jesus is not a political philosopher. He is our Savior.

See also Andrew Greeley:  A Stupid, Unjust, and Criminal War: Iraq 2003 - 2007.

(With a picture of an Iraqi child on the cover)

some relief at Starbucks brief
    recommittment done
       young sons sung

highly anxious, highly anxious
but still I battle on

gratitude for Cardinals
dear deer and dearest fawn

basketball relaxes me
I pray for the world gone wrong

light through yonder window
                      breaks
the birds break into song

                         Mom!

The quiet is the refuge
Qualyxian the Quest
Late this not not lonely
Guerrilla warfare is the best

Strike and then step back
Live to fight another day
Love her in the moonlight
Celtic Cross to pray

            The 4th of May!

Sister Wendy Beckett
         Tolkien
            Art

Things go from bad to worse
But democracy yet holds

I'm thankful to many a nurse
As gradually I grow old

Now is the winter of our discontent
America gone cold

The future for the young
Be strong. Be brave. Be bold.

They are going to say sick and suffering
And they are not completely wrong

But what they don't fully know
Is that sick and suffering creates great songs

Workin' hard in Chapel Hill
Ah! get along! get along!

The patience of the Asians
The wisdom of Harry Wong

I plot and plan and place
I keep on keepin' on

I think I can find the space
Be a bridge where we belong.

beauty will save the world
do you still think so, Fyodor?

I often hope you’re right
but I also am not so sure

the terror is quite vast
who can open the divine Door?

another world to live in
we indeed at times implore

but the news again is bad
****** bullet bodies on the floor

sharks in Time’s savage ocean
will we reach the sandy shore?

early morning essay
      wee Jaimie
  the gift of tears

Walking on the beach in Nice
She talks off her shoes

We are on our honeymoon
We will also know the Blues

Life is broken dreams
By the mystic ocean

My marriage is broken too
But my heart still holds devotion

On our second date
In Baltimore we danced

We visited Chartres Cathedral
Long live France!

Because I am so anxious
Peace is truly gift when it does come

I lie here all alone
I breathe. The day is done.

Sleep deep destiny
Sleep eternal night

Sleep perchance to dream
Sleep. No more to fight.

               Be alright.

I can feel death bearing down
My days slip away
Can't get no relief
Can't find no words to pray

Time to drive my car
Gonna see my son today
Fatherhood is gratitude
Silent is the Way

                xie xie

Said Horace Mann

for the meaning seeking animal
futility is hard to take in

even at the end
we want again to begin

to find we are going nowhere
brings agony within

it may be that my own madness
in this world of illusion and sin

arises because I cannot accept
that mortality appears to win

I miss my beloved Dead
am I their shamanic twin?

Hot chicks on Facebook
No thanks for the friend request
Grey day morning
Gonna have to get dressed

Women in the mirror
Women in the show
Oxford's female professors
Hidey hidey hidey **!

John Brown's Body
One Dark Knight
White Thai Buddha
2 green lights

         Lonergan's Insight

America is Ignorance
So I plant and place and pace
He's got the Joker
I've got the Ace

Go down, Go down grateful
Sakatchewan give chase
Gently, genie gently
Not Father John Disgrace

            Tracy. Trace.

Alex didn't write or call
Which is not a very good sign
Haven't heard from Mark at all
By chance or by design?

I have very few friends
In my solitude
Blessed are the peacemakers
But there times as well to feud

I was early on Taiwan
Ahead on UFOs
But still I make mistakes
T-shirts for my clothes

Can God help the animals?
Predation truly scares me
I eat now only salmon
Vegetarian food awares me

The pulpit is the prow of the ship
Ishmael quite right
Prayers for Chicago
One Dark Knight

               Lonergan. Insight.

Beauty and terror oh! so close
Rilke was quite right

He traveled in Muslim Europe
Islamic angels for insight

Mohammed heard the Koranic voice
Command him to recite

Water in the desert
The Alhambra at midnight

                     Delight!

There is real beauty in nature
Lake Tahoe I have seen

And there is terror
Coronavirus now on our screen

Cannot separate
Have to live with both

This is Impossible
But I try - by my troth!

Helsinki Cathedral
       Purple sky
             Aye

The isolation is intense
One is the loneliest number

I'm tired and I'm weary
Her chocolate skin in summer!

Beauty is refreshing
Hope that life is art

She said, Hello my friend
Ah! the leap inside my heart

My body left the bank
But my mind does not depart!

Eva sings the Blues
    Tall Trees in Georgia clues
          Beauty both reveals and eludes

The history professor’s house in Boston
  Trinity Episcopal (where I got lost in)
              gazing up, sitting down...



                       Beauty Brown!

Some say Rest in Power
Some say Rest in Peace

Some say not to be born is best
Like some said in Ancient Greece

I say that I miss her still
Because she was so fun

Not ready to rest just yet
To Boston with her I'd like to run

Sit in that beauty brown church
She can show me how it's done

Then I'd tell her, yes I'd tell her
Surely, She's the One!

Ferry boat from Stockholm to Helsinki
I try karaoke but sound terrible
I guess all Americans are not rock stars
But the Scandanavians kindly clap anyway

                     Beauty by the Baltic

White Cathedral
Green dome
Purple Sky

          Endless Pain
          Purple Rain.

Time passes
Just memories

My sons at play
The sea, The breeze

Tidal pools
Pounding waves

The wish, The wish
That something saves


Those beauty days.

The fool hath said in his heart:
There ain't no God

The atheists now think they know
But certainty is odd

The evidence is mixed
My sons on her Ipod

The evidence is mixed
But beauty gets the nod.

Statues continue toppling down
Truth telling comes to town

Wind and water whipping through
Don't know what he's gonna do

Billy Graham it isn't you
Time to listen to the Oglala Sioux

I still smile so I don't frown
The moonlight is her beauty gown

God first reveals Herself as Beauty
Then Goodness
Only ultimately as Truth

And once She reveals herself as Truth
She then returns to what She was in the beginning:

                              Beauty

               ­   - Fr. Andrew Greeley

droplets softly on the pool's surface
          imponderables remain
                    life is pain

She speaks to me
Of the Black Forest

She speaks to me
Of Snow White

A story, she says,
From the Brothers Grimm
When things this time
Turn out alright

Her childhood in Germany
Cute little pickle farm

Despite everything -
everything, everything -
May she be protected from all

                      Harm.