Intravedo nel mio passato
nel mio presente
vedo crecita
ci sono tre cose quelle mi fanno sorridere
il amore
la vita
e Gesu Cristo
il amore era qualcosa che non ** potuto riconoscere
Adesso lo e tutto per me
Qualcuno che conosco o qualcosa che faccio sempre lo attenziono con amore
la vita e qualcosa sacra e stupenda
Adesso vedo che la mia prospettiva mi ha cambiato
Finalmente ** Gesu Cristo
Prima di lui avevo molti problemi
Adesso ** i stessi probemli ma non sto sola
Adesso io sono forte e felice
Oggi sono la persona quella sono  perche lui

Catholic, but not orthodox
I do like the little way
St. Therese in France
My family in Taipei

Father David Tracy
Giordano Bruno
Ping Pong at Calvert House
Gesu for those who do know

Marguerite Porete
Eckhart. Heidelberg.
Honeymoon in France
Camus and the Absurd

Simone Weil in Spain
Santa Rosa, California
America gone wrong
Don't say I didn't warn ya

              The Pequod

Latin in the morning
Latin at JMU
Latin y Latino
I roam in Rome for you

Sunt lacrimae rerum
But joy returns anew
The ecstasy, St. Teresa
My cousins at Gesu

            Et tu?

Not much innocent in this old world
Less in the USA

Dragon Scroll gently unfurled
Nothing left to say

Funerals and funeral homes
The silence of the Night

Pope Francis, the Gesu in Rome
Sor Juana's mystic flight

             Chana Masala
          Vegetarian's Delight

Gonna write a wind one now
One for Donnie Brown
Gesu in the mist
When Love Comes To Town

Maybe you live in me
And I live in you
1969
2022

I went to Murray's pub
I heard Finnegan's Wake
They sang the Belle of Belfast
I sing the Lady of the Lake

I am Thomas Donald
My father Thomas John
Holy Toledo, Batman!
A shaman, but not Qanon

              Donnie!

Bernini walked to the Gesu to pray every evening for forty years.

‘Tis the time for Xmas cheer ---  Gesu ascending into the mesosphere, making life safe for us despite Daddy’s vengeful nature, despite the crack-ups: Adam & Lilith...and despite anybody I told ever anything.

Bernini walked to the Gesu to pray every evening for forty years.

Walter Ong in St. Louis
Where my father went to school

Lou Brock and Bob Gibson
Cardinals are cool

Orality and literacy
God's word, he says, is spoken

I like Leonard Cohen
The Alleluia broken

The Jesuits are journeymen
They've taught me something too

Contemplatives in action
Prayers at the Gesu

The things hardest to give up
The things we need the least

True in the Wild West
True in the mystic East

True in Africa
With the wildabeast

Invite her to the party
Bring him to the feast

I miss my Uncle Marty
The sadness does not cease

His funeral at Gesu
Soccer families at least

Overflowed the church
His legacy rose like yeast

My poems at Georgetown
May his memory increase