You once said
priority of imagination,
Gary's "the real work"
all in the dream together,
ah
You
in pain & pleasure:
once
after the good stout meal sighing about the "aliens"
come getcha
& you wrote
"Dear Alice,. I mean. Dear Anne, (the typewriter is always a little bit haywire).
&
"Vast sweaty love"
everything is
heavenly ultimate
achievement oft transmuted
bewilderment dim sun metabolism!
sound the jealous god (asura)
inside out , flail the fucker
in the mortal soup
beam down from warring god realm heaven
to this sorry orgy below
Samsara is
beginningless
& endlessness beginninglessness
towards no end begging
to be born
(get over it)
as
mind of Fugen
compares to the disc
of the moon towards no full moon end
but here &
as you
wax or wane
your "ah" too
curvaceous
pivot sound (kakekotoba)
your om more a bemused mmmmmm & skinny
"craft" the lesser or the greater
vehicle?
we moor
up against fleeting
worldly love
( yours for Joanne, say)
light robes into breakfast
wet with tears of wordy love
on a craft+boat=poem
just as
a coach fare
or bird travels
through complicated past lives
You once in something
like a "kanjur"
(pronouncement) you don't need
to reach a calm formalism, Annie
rather naked mind!
a tissue of illusions — enkuyo
strung together
for the poem
sitting with
you like Fudo
("the unmoving")
open
organic form
Said
"bamboo"
"what our crimson color does"
"get the goodies from the roshi is why
I stuck"
human treatise on the joys of enlightenment
gassho
& end all the flypaper
moshu
("wrongful clinging")
Annie: I hope you & Reed and Ambrose Pantoum are all well & happy."
—Anne Waldman
Year of the Earth Rat