Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Joanne Kyger

    

Joanne Kyger in Nara, Japan, as photographed by Allen Ginsberg in June 1963. Photo via the Electronic Poetry Center .

                           photograph by Allen Ginsberg, Nara, Japan (June 1963)

Your Heart is Fine

Your heart is fine feeling the widest 

possible empathy for the day and its inhabitants 

Thanks for looking at the wind 

in the top of the eucalyptus 

dancing like someone you know 

well 'I'm here I'm here I'm here!' 

The wind picks up 

a rush of leaves waving 

wildly for your understanding 

—apple, plum, bamboo 

rooted and flourishing 

next to your home 

in the air awake 


without defect 

June 17, 2000 

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