Yes, Fr. Greeley.

Do I go back and reread my own books for pleasure?  In case you were wondering, No. Definitely not.

                         - Garrison Keillor

Life of Pi
     Stormy sky
         Tzimtzum why?


                       Imagine I

The monsignor surely smiled
But I only can guess why

Trappist 1 is orbiting
In a far off distant sky

Religion is ambiguous
But still I have to try

In the 48 contiguous
To find the Life of Pi

And tell the Better Story
Before I have to die

he said this too shall pass
like everything at the last
     good and evil done
       silent setting sun ...

         eternity as Night
can dreams bring back light?

ordinary, boring, secular life
     past history, a little mystery, much strife
          soul singing strong Cuts Like a Knife

he ends by saying it feels so right,
but I wonder if he wonders
what might have been
if, instead of letting go,
she kept holding on, and became his wife?

above all, she was fun
more fun than philosophy

i was naive and young
the end I couldn't see

i like traveling trains
and slow go ferry boats

i remember her in dresses
i remember winter coats

even memories fade
silences beyond blue notes

He says today
We want our villains
Deeply, darkly, radically villainous

And our heroes
Tormented, tortured, troubled souls

Beyond Comics is a cool store
Magic the Gathering, fun board games

Got my son his Batman poster there
Got myself the Archer's Quest

There is mystery. There is.
And apophenia
Chaos
Childishness
Decline
Ridiculousness

Hope for the Flowers
Embers
Old flames
Mystic flight
Distant friends

                      Exoplanets!

Teachers as soldiers
Fighting ignorance and despair

Musicians as the masters
Highwater Everywhere

The darkness is quite deep
Star Trek in the air

Beyond darkness lies greatness
Engage! We seek the lair.

According to Star Trek.

According to Star Trek.

In perfect silence at the stars

Distance avails not
Time avails not

This love that we call ours

Jacques Vallee and Melchizedek
         Is it true?  Do not know, I'll try to check
                     the Edmund Fitzgerald indeed did wreck …


                                              legend lives on!

Ultima Thule
cosmica newly
Revolution unruly

Robert Frost
Bid for remembrance
Fire and ICE

Like a diary
a little rhyme

   remembrance

Robert Frost
His bid for remembrance
Is it worth it?
You'll never actually know

I like movies
Miso soup
Ms. Susan Meek
Kamakura snow

Ordinary boredom
So far from God
Sleep
Swing low. Swing low.

Meaningless.
Worth the wait.
Just one kiss!
Yoko yo yo

        So ...

Psychosis is periodically required
For the integrity of shamanism
So the bizarro thoughts and fears
They fit, they fit right in

Lovely brown chapel at UNC
Newman Center
Yes, John Henry
We have to lose to win

Legends live on Franklin Street
The bus is free and easy
Coach Brian Katz is America Respect
The Trumpfucks are America ******

Alex and I played a lot of ping pong
He is better than me
Wonder and Exile, mystical-prophetic
A New World for to see

                     Let it be.

                    Eventually

Reno, fondly Reno
Big blue sky
Sage Ridge School
Maybe Life of Pi

Some good thing
To do before I die
Something for my sons
Aye! Aye! Aye!

Two prayers for Thailand
Renu Rodthongkam
Tuk Tuks in the rain
The Buddha's Great Compassion

Solitary sadness
Too sad to clean up
I miss that Quayzar pup
Faithful in my fashion

Soup in San Francisco
One hour meditation
Cool Grey City of Love
The beauty of the bridge

Robinson
Taipei American School
The Madame Curie School
Sage Ridge

                    Reno!

mad as the mist and snow
             Salvador’s altar slow
                        valley below I go


                     nucleareno

Artistic Immortality
Worth it or no?

People throw shade
As reputations grow

I live a lonely life
Miss the Reno snow

The silence of the grave
Ashes she will throw

   Hidey Hidey Hidey **!

Maybe it's all random
Maybe baby so

My sons and I went sledding
Lovely Reno snow

Hard it is indeed
To hold on and then let go

I plant a mustard seed
But truly I don't know

          Oh! Oh! Oh!

Sleep is good for panic attacks
Dream, baby, dream

Finally, at times, I can relax
Oh that inner scream

My son is reading Annabel Lee
We talk of Mr. Poe

I've been to Richmond and to Baltimore
On and on we go

                          Reno snow.

Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis
Pumped a lot of tane down in New Orleans
But I never saw the good side of the city
Till I hitched a ride on the Riverboat Queen

                         - Tina Turner

Springsteen shirt and Jake
      Singing Sean and William Blake ...

                         walking meditation

I keep writing about California
With Georgia on My Mind
Truly I tried to warn ya
America Unkind

Tucker Carlson is San Diego
The beaches must be white
I went to Balboa Park
Not a ******* in sight

Snow in Lake Tahoe
Fog on the Golden Gate
California cold
2088

City Lights bookstore
Moroccan mint tea
Do you know the way to San Jose?
Sausalito see

              Lunch at 2 or 3

             Bridges definitely.

Driving home from school in Reno
Fire on the Mountain
Smoke

American Christian sadism.

Andrew Greeley like Bing Crosby
Gonzaga, Bing is Back
Spoke out against George W.
Spoke out for Iraq

Bing sang with David Bowie
Par *** pum pum pum pum pum
Here said I, with a sudden cry
Is my crematorium!

David Bowie somewhat Buddhist
Never gonna fall for Modern Love
Help comes from my dad
And from Andy Dove

Bishop Blackie Ryan
The beggar girl of St. Germain
Not primarily scriptural
Maybe someday Spain

       Darling Nikki. Purple Rain.


             La Mancha: the Stain.

The predatory terror in the natural world
Life is Suffering
Antelope Canyon
The joy that children bring

Much time alone
Phone, DVDs
Lonely cool before dawn
Try to show you what I sees

Lithium, Risperidol
Metformin, Hydroxyzine
The admittedly desperate hope
Bluegreen Things Not Seen

Read a lot of books
Nearly 18 years a teacher
In my solitude
I just cannot quite reach her

                     Denver!

Biography waits in the bookstore
Edgar Allen Poet

I had never forgotten
But she surely didn't know it

May never travel abroad again
But Stockholm sunshine in my mind

All things fade, even memories
Farewell and be kind.

Those tidal pools in Monterrey
          My boys so young

                       Life!

meaningless yes, but still quite precious
    twilight best, deep blues refresh us        running on empty, no one to catch us ...

                      year by year
                       disappear

Extinction is Forever
Biology Buddhamind

Mr. Charles Darwin
And geological time

Like the dinosaurs
What will the future find?

Yo no se, Taipei.
Maybe cranberry juice with lime.

          Maybe baby rhyme.

Green forest, Brown earth
Chesterton, hidden mirth

Brown hair, green eyes
I look, I look:  fireflies!

childhood memories, Ohio skies
  green the trees, blue her eyes
                fireflies!

SkyZone joint jumpin’
     young sons sung
           Trappist-1!

According to the Nurse