(Fragmentary inscription on a virtual stone)

Roman Forum, 8:12 a.m.,
eastern sky is gold and gray over the
Colosseum, still some blue sky
in the east, the Forum mostly
gray above, gray below, but not all gray, also brown,
air bebirded, streets becarred, ruins
lightly becatted. Little chirping guys fly smoothly to a
little tree. Gray & black crows say brah! brah! brah!
Ka gives me a running commentary on the activities of two cats
that spring lithely over the stones.
We're near the place they use as a toilet, it seems.
Last night I dreamt I was working for Greenpeace again
and the FBI bugged my old house in Ann Arbor,
and in disabling the recording device I set the machine on fire.
I'm still at home, it seems.
I carry home in my head.
I'm a 7-year old digging a hole in the backyard
while imagining my life in the future.
Little did I imagine that the
crows would have gray bodies to go with their  black heads,
wings and tails.
The stone dome of the church nearby is like a bullet
pointed at the heart of God.
The ghosts of the emperors
have gray bodies and black wings.
The poetry should just come
squirting out of one's pen in a place like this.
It's cold; still too early for them to unlock the gate
to let us in to walk among the ruins;
killing time,
we make friends with a cat.

It was an amazing experience to get teached by you. --AF, Austria

Thanks for that interesting english course. Almost every day there was
something new. Beside english I learned so much more, e.g. about click
language, Chinese, about the roots of the weekdays, about different
cultures.... Many things I already shared with other persons. I loved
your stories about the indios and the jungle. I also appreciate your
openness. --MH, Austria

Nathan I love you! You were a good teacher. --MM, Austria

Many thank's for everything! --TT, Hungary

It was a short time but lives long in memory. Thank you for teaching
us your experience. I enjoyed it very much. --MK, Austria

I want to say thank you for all your (sometimes very sentimental)
stories and about those people with their destiny. --UR, Austria

We thank you for the grate time of ideas creation, for laughing and
crying times, singing, stretching, coulors and persisch lectures, for
the meditations as well as for rotflmao.... en pocas palabras mil
gracias [in few words, a thousand thanks]. --SH, Guatemala

Your lessons are really not average. You are definitely the best
Story-teller I know, and nothing beats your singing, and I admire your
universal knowledge. --ST, Austria

Thank's for your patience. --LR, Austria

(Vienna, 2006)


I'm really grateful to meet you and thanks for your patient when you
were teaching us. --SB, Turkey

Thank you for a good time in class. You are very kind teacher. Thank
you for every your help. Thank you very much. --MT, Thailand

You are my best teacher. --NE, Cambodia

Thank you for your happiness during the class and your funny games. --JC, France

I'm very impressed of your actitud in class. It's so special and
interesting. I've never seen one teacher who is really want to teach
his student. I will never forget you! --LS-X, China/Venezuela

Thank you for your humor and your joy of teaching. Thanks for having
made us progress. --LR, France

You're a very good teacher, funny and an enlightened person who makes
English language umbelievably interesting. Thanks a lot for share this
moment with us. --MA, France/Mexico

Thank you Nathan. The way you teach is funny and helpful. You are a
nice guy also. --AJ, Taiwan

(Boston, 2005)