early morning quiet, cheap motel
     watching, praying, waiting
        work begins again today
              JMU in the CAA . ..

  The Colonial Assassination Association

There's no way to know for sure
Have to trust when I can't understand
Also need suspicion
Also need to hold your hand

Music makes me happy
I know very little Thai
This is what it sounds like
When Doves Cry

He said he saw Prince in Spain
Best show of his life
Summer of 69
Cuts Like a Knife

I like those 80s ladies
Even in 2022
Her hair is wavy black
Her eyes are ocean blue

   We are the Dukes of JMU!

Camus at JMU
19 years old
       Absurd

So much for lost love
Better dailiness
Take care of my sons
Try to see them through

             Fondly JMU

Not much going on in Harrisonburg
A good place to study
William James, Josiah Royce
Meister Eckhart, Albert Camus

Took a class on Dante and Milton
I was too young for it
Female Episcopal priest
Fondly JMU

                       ' tis true

I'm not gonna win any awards
I sit in libraries alone
I am not a saint
I threw a Rolling Stone

Dr. Thomas was my teacher
Dr. O'Meara too
I majored in philosophy
Gracias JMU

         Susan Meek not Sue

At JMU
I took a class on Dante and Milton
The Divine Comedy
And Paradise Lost
The professor was a female Episcopal priest
I was too young for it
But I think it shows
An early attraction
To religious poetry:


They also serve who only stand and wait.

Waitin' on JMU
Baby, please come through
Destiny for Q
Please let him in

Souped up 72
Carolina blue
Susan Meek not Sue
Where should I begin?

                     Hope!

tired, long and lonely
grateful for the rest
ambiguity
even at my best

European trains
Sunlit Italy
Latin, a little Latin
Shakespeare's tragedies

                JMU

staring at Guernica, focus on the flower
no man knows the day or hour

but for my friends and country I will try
prayers above Seattle's starry sky

Fr. John Grace, help me be true
decades later, I still remember you

                                             Amen.

Curious coincidences.

Dr. Thomas was quite charming
And funny. And courteous too
Gratitude for him
Gratitude for JMU

                  And for Camus