Five Poems
June 7. To get a head start
Yea, but I’m too old
Yea, but I’m growing too old
June 7. To get a head start
Yea, but I’m too old
Yea, but I’m growing too old
He is in the mountains and in the streams, fields
Call upon the Lord Ganesha and he
will appear
I have gone on, to still another one, a young
french girl she is this time, my wife did not bear my child
and I knew it.
In 1960, when she was in her late twenties, the poet Joanne Kyger (1934–2017) joined Gary Snyder in Japan. From there, the two traveled to India, together with Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, where they met the Dalai Lama. Below are entr…