GUEST EDITOR GABRIEL GUDDING ~THE STRANGE CALL
VOLUME 19, ISSUE 3 ISSN 1543-6063


THE INSURGENTS                    

Surging in         like sea waves do
                  Not a revolution     not belligerency

But an uprising   rising up
                              Of focused nameless opposition

                                                Keeps you very busy
                     Farewell, I must leave, bye-bye

“The insurgency is sophisticated
              and stronger than anticipated…”

                        “My name is Isis” says a small child
                                        “and that means Egyptian Goddess”

“No it means    stupid dirty   little girl”
      says the California Secretary of Education

           Constantly create the enemy
                   Constantly create the war
                       “I’m a war president, I’m a war president”

Belligerent naked Indy stalks
    Completely without leaves

                  On a cliff above the high tide surging
                        In a huge gathering flow

                            Can you beat THIS into submission?

                                                                                     July 20, 2004

 

                        NIGHT   PALACE                      

‘The best thing about the past

                                            is that it’s over’

                            when you die.

                        you wake up

                from the dream

                                                 that’s your life

Then you grow up

                                    and get to be post human

                           in a past    that keeps happening

                      ahead of you 

                                                                                    October 2003
 

Joanne
Kyger

A native Californian, Joanne Kyger became part of the San Francisco poetry world in 1957 when she left Santa Barbara where she had attended both high school and the University of California. After spending four years in Kyoto she returned to San Francisco in 1964 where her first book was published. Further travels took her to Europe and New York City before she settled on the coast north of San Francisco, traveling as much as possible to Mexico. She teaches at new College of California in San Francisco and in the Poetics Program at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. She has published over 20 books of poetry. She was the winner of the National Poetry Series in 1983 for her book Going On. Her most recent books of poems include  God Never Dies (Blue Press), The Distressed Look (Coyote Books), and As Ever: Selected Poems published by Penguin Books.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poems on this page © Joanne Kyger 2005.
 

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