Joanne Kyger
View North
Back dropped
blue-grey clouds
warm lull
a spot of sun
in this clearing
of moment transferred—
a perfectly peaceful point
of view—
Larry Eigner's window.
Salute you Larry!
Seagull cries 3 times
and then the crow,
also a reef grazer,
slowest, easiest,
then smooth layers exhale—
Don't let yourself get away
from that conversational
tone line of the reef emerging
low tide, windless
February 2, 1996
—Joanne Kyger
from JOANNE
"JOANNE is a novel from the inside out."
what I wanted to say
was in the broad
sweeping
form of being there
I am
walking up the path
I come home and wash my hair
I am bereft
I dissolve quickly
I am everybody
reprinted from Joanne, Angel Hair, 1970