1103. And With March A Decade In Bolinas - Joanne Kyger

  Selected from: A Book Of Luminous Things, 

  Edited by Czeslaw Milosz

Just sitting around smoking, drinking and telling stories,

the news, making plans, analyzing, approaching the cessation

of personality, the single personality understands it demise.

Experience of the simultaneity of all human beings on this planet,

alive when you are alive. This seemingly inexhaustible

sophistication of awareness becomes relentless and horrible, 

trapped. How am I ever going to learn enough to get out.

The beautiful soft and lingering props of the Pacific here.

The back door bangs

So we’ve made a place to live

  here in the greened out 70’s

Trying to talk in the Tremulous

morality of the present

Great Breath. I give you, Great Breath!