My intensity also frightens me
See how they run
A little peace comes dropping slow
And then there then were nun

Movie theaters
Video Games
Breakfast on the road

Sleepless nights
Hydroxyzine
Brain on overload

Endless search
Solitude
Longfellow's Day is Done

Mysticism
Hospitals
But did I have a little fun?

     un pequito, my darling one

Songs of love
Songs of betratrayal
Discoveries!
Terror in the Night

Un pequito hope
Taco trucks
Memories
Two green lights

Reno risks
Reno Rendezvous
Play the Ace
Go down with a fight

Sage Ridge School
Today's Tom Sawyer
Carolina Inn
One Night's delight

         Insight!

You're only given a little madness
Says Robin Williams
But I've been given a lot

Prayers for my troubled wife
Prayers for my brother Scott

The best that I can do
Until I'm nothing not

If my life is a story
I do not know the plot

         But so what?

I'm not going to figure it all out
Grateful today for rest
Grateful for my new place
Not now put to test

Eggs and hashbrowns for breakfast
Toast with a bit of jelly
Yes, I remember Happy Days
Arthur Fonzarelli!

My days drift on and lonely
But phone calls from my boys
Motorcycle taxis in Bangkok
Memories? Nitnoy.

              y un pequito joy

I would like to live in libraries
Where hate has no home
Marital misery
But honeymoon sweet in Rome

Save her from herself
Send her loyal friends
Un pequito nitnoy hope
Art that never ends

Maybe Colorado
Georgia on my mind
Stockholm in the summer
Tel Aviv treat her kind

The Once and Future King
Cerebro. Professor X.
Not sure what to do now
Help me do what's next

              Checks

When I'm in this library
I write about California
Not sure why
Dreaming of the sun

It doesn't work out right
She files for divorce
My child born in downtown Taipei
Near Taipei 101

The religions are not true
But she whispers in my ear
Such a pretty church!
Please give up your guns

I tend toward the serious
Often death obsessed
La bibliotecha
Pero un pequito fun.

Thanksgiving soon to come
I wait. Yes I wait.
Quiet hotel room
Alone without my mate

Cheese ravioli
Memories persist
Thomas Builds the Fire
One man he resist

My psychiatrist studied philosophy
I think she listens well
Dreams that aren't just dreams
Ain't no tongue can tell

Life is mystery
See how they run
Asian history
I pray Thy will be done

       Y un pequito fun

She's so badly damaged
Solamente un pequito hope
There must be female priests
Sorry, Francis Pope

Gay people should marry
The Catholic Church is wrong
Tell me, can you hear it?
Somebody done somebody wrong song

Coincidence and mystery
I asked and I received
3 Dog Night
Things Not Seen but still believed

Vienna like a fairytale
All that softfall snow
Books, horses, hot chocolate
Hidey Hidey Hidey **!

Uriel and I play basketball
    Si, hablo un pequito Espanol
          Maybe one day you too to Tokyo ...

                       gracias, mi amigo

The drama comes from fear
The fear comes from threats
The shipwreck of the mind
Mistakes. Rage. Regrets.

In Boston shabu shabu
In California snow
In Bangkok family game day
Buried Ohio

At the edge of the Abyss
Please keep her close and far
Ordinary Mary
Granny Murray's bar

Drama but not important
One lonely little life
Yoda for my children
La Mancha for my wife

   un pequito protection
             en la strife

So the docs say I have an anxiety disorder
Just cannot relax
Hope at my grandma's house
Hope at Uncle Jack's

I hope my children don't get it
Hope to die in peace
Would like to see Istanbul
More than Ancient Greece

Basketball tonight
Hotel room is quiet
He and I and hoopin'
Astronauts will fly it

Exoplanets spin
Astronomers find water
Big Fish swims away
Nobody ever caught her

                 Blue!

Is what I usually say.

Un pequito Spanish
California snow
55 and falling
Solamente yo

Denver, Colorado
Susan Darlene Meek
Drifting toward death
Yo soy un board game geek

I find *** tormenting
Mostly live alone
All these little poems
My little black cell phone

The Old Man and the Sea
Noble Santiago
Romeo and Juliet
Othello and Iago

                     Reno!

Europa Report from Ecuador
               Raven savin' - Nevermore
                          sacrifice - what is it for?




                              discoveries

I don't do too well
In these United States
A few days in Tokyo
Lots of time alone

Fatherhood is gratitude
Prayers for protection
With my faults and weaknesses
Un pequito hope

Scifi Gamla Stan
Beauty Baltic Sea
3773
Argentina Pope

Cell phone
Culianou. Ioan.
Joan

     The Unknown.

Not intentionally antinomian
But molds must be broken
Secrets must be spoken
Women. More than one.

Exoplanets. Exomoons.
Asian trains. Taipei typhoons.
3772
7271

                   Sanuk Di!

               Thy will be done.

so Fernando Suarez was my high school Spanish teacher in La Florida the Land of Flowers he used to take pictures of me when I fell asleep in class with a flash to wake me up with drool running out of my mouth on to my desk and books because I stayed up late after basketball practice studying and before I lived in La Florida I lived in Sacramento California is also a Spanish word as are Santa and Rosa where my youngest son was born Teresa of Avila said she wasn't afraid of Satan me neither but she was afraid of those who are afraid of Satan and I am afraid of predation at times and annihilation but not of the Dark Night of the Soul one Dark Knight Chicago I went out unseen ah! the sheer grace Joe Perez and a beautiful Mexican girl were in CCD with me in Sacramento and Alex who is from Tucson played a lot of ping pong in Chicago wonder and exile in the new world amazing Cabeza de Vaca la Raza Cosmica Richard Rodriguez discovery of Brown my mother went to the University of Toledo my mother Sally Brown who died in Georgetown.          

                                 Viva!

Caught in the cold rain
It's true - my life in vain
    

  Desafortunadamente

so Fernando Suarez was my high school Spanish teacher in La Florida the Land of Flowers he used to take pictures of me when I fell asleep in class with a flash to wake me up with drool running out of my mouth on to my desk and books because I stayed up late after basketball practice studying and before I lived in La Florida I lived in Sacramento California is also a Spanish word as are Santa and Rosa where my youngest son was born Teresa of Avila said she wasn't afraid of Satan me neither but she was afraid of those who are afraid of Satan and I am afraid of predation at times and annihilation but not of the Dark Night of the Soul one Dark Knight Chicago I went out unseen ah! the sheer grace Joe Perez and a beautiful Mexican girl were in CCD with me in Sacramento and Alex who is from Tucson played a lot of ping pong in Chicago wonder and exile in the new world amazing Cabeza de Vaca la Raza Cosmica Richard Rodriguez discovery of Brown my mother went to the University of Toledo my mother Sally Brown who died in Georgetown.          

                                 Viva!

I've seen the Mediterranean
Walked the beach in Nice
Honeymoon in Paris
Marriage in misery

Life goes on until it doesn't
I like Michael Clayton
eine kleine nachtmusik
Sting and the Police

Don't like David Brooks
What a pompous ***!
American Decline
In Dublin meant to be

When the Day is Done
Un pequito fun
Viva Mexico!
Viva you and me

                   Si.

1 tonight for my boys
1 at Taipei 101
Un pequito Espanyol
Un pequito Midnight Sun

Time tick tocks
La Florida for fun
My Mr. Spock socks
See how they run

      Only just begun ...

A little happiness
My boys in joy at play

The need for gentle beauty
Within the USA

Chapel of the Cross
Silently I pray

Daoist hermitage
Silent is the Way

         xie xie

Arrogant American women
Shy and geeky men
California sun
San Francisco Zen

A little basketball
Scifi does pretend
She's my enemy
Do I have a friend?

            Wends.

Khadija comforts Mohammed
Silver crescent moon
Rothko blue and green
In our kitchen Flaming June

Gradual, says the Cardinal
Gradual is wise
More than one lifetime
I experiment y tries

I would like to see Tunisia
Heidelberg, Istanbul
I would like to take the ferry boat
Where the sadness does not pull

If I have a little hope
It's in the long term view
Women priests, Francis Pope
Gay marriage too

            History? Undo.

Old fashioned Catholic guilt
The One who understands
Depression. Regression.
Solitary Man.

            Do the best I can ....

Khadija comforts Mohammed
Silver crescent moon
Rothko blue and green
In our kitchen Flaming June

Gradual, says the Cardinal
Gradual is wise
More than one lifetime
I experiment y tries

I would like to see Tunisia
Heidelberg, Istanbul
I would like to take the ferry boat
Where the sadness does not pull

If I have a little hope
It's in the long term view
Women priests, Francis Pope
Gay marriage too

            History? Undo.

The snow falling
Around the Kamakura Buddha
Catches my attention

Only in Japan for 2 weeks
Wedding.
Amazement

More experience with the Koreans
Good students
Good food

England twice
Turkish coffee in London
Mozart Christmas Eve

           Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

American politics is despair on despair
Tired. Lonely. Sleeping.
Movies give me hope
She's certainly worth keeping

Irish music, a little pizza
Thank you, Alan, for talk
A little cherry cider
A little late night walk

Maybe salvation is dailiness
Not life after death
San Francisco fog
Zen Center breath

Grateful for fatherhood
At times atrocious remorse
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Gamla Stan, of course

                bookstores!

Does God have a Dark Side?
Yes, I think She does
Frightening indeed
Wind to water was

Stranger Than Fiction
Her father is a priest
Her dad a Simple Man
Prisoners get released

Un pequito Spanish
Vegetarian burritos
John F. Savage Hall
University of Toledo

Saw my brother today
I got a Ticket to Ride
2072
After I have died

              Tyrannicide!

The Batman deep dark blue
      Lights the red flare
                  Aware!

I know what I'm doing
But it's gonna take some time
We forward in this generation
The American Sublime

Much madness in the air
And a glowing yellow moon
American Despair
Dr. Chong Kun Yoon

I taught Asian history
Rode the Taipei Train
Coincidence and mystery
St. Teresa in Avila, Spain

I attend no political rallies
A yellow dog Democrat
Food was flyin' everywhere
I left without my hat

Movies keep me company
Long live Heath Ledger!
She lives in my heart
Silently I pledge her

                Galway!

Europe and Asia in my mind
Though my time is slight
To ancient things I am inclined
But not to Sein und Zeit

I write because I ...
Tomorrow I see my son
Batman the Protector
Protect Taipei 101

       y un pequito fun

A little poetry in my soul
The lonely, little way
The American Abyss
Still I say xie xie

Bookstore with my son
Depression is a *****
My life is long chaos
But he I would not switch

Grey day blues
So, so boredinary
I am a taxi service
In France is Mother Mary

                patientia

Discovering David Markson
Truly one of a kind
Bangkok in the rain
And the Buddhamind

I've been to New York City
Wicked with my sons
Scarlett Johansson is pretty
Please give up your guns

A little won ton soup
A little Asian rice
A little Susan Meek
Don't have to ask me twice

I might die alone
I might die at night
Protection for my boys
Courage in the fright

         Gatsby's green light

A little coincidence today
               Chicago
                hope?

The bipolar is my burden
They think I think I'm chosen
But I just want to help
And yes, I miss my mom

Haunted by coincidence
Numbers. Conversations.
Memories quite intimate
White Nights and the prom

Want to be unique
Am nobody's savior
Want to make the pass
Saw St. Stephansdom

Want to use bipolar
To help my distant team
Perhaps discovery
And protection from the bomb

           please proceeding on

Such drama inside me
But my life, so ** hum

I am obsessed with names
I showed her Born to Run

Almost 20 years a teacher
Now unemployed

Anxiety my feature
Phone calls to my boys

Mark in Sacramento
Texts in the night

Edgar Allan Poe
Melville's condor flight

Books. Postcards. Letters.
A little light.

Way out in the wilderness
A cold coyote calls
Hablo un pequito Espanyol
All Walls Fall

I was given madness
Madness was given me
2037
3033

In my solitude
Memories of She
In my solitude
Still xie xie ni

           T

So little female in my life
     Lost in Translation
               Tokyo

Arriving too late
Oxford twilight
Vienna in snow
Kyoto

Thankful for my sons
Taipei 101
California fun
Zero

The Dark Knight Chicago
Hospitals
Jail
No hero

Will I die alone?
Little black cell phone
Tokyo tone
Such fearo

               hope ...

precious little to believe in
            but that little
       is indeed precious ...