Joanne Kyger
       Carl Jung Greeted

Carl Jung greeted all his kitchen utensils
   first thing in the morning—

  "Good morning frying pan
      Hello cup
          Greetings little silver spoon"

                                      We're all in this together
                                      even though your thoughts think

you are a big deal and try and turn

you into somebody special,  like 'god'
   who does not stoop to good and evil

                      Two billion spent on War so far  could have been spent on dentistry

           Cannot hide from the sorrow and danger
              of invading a country like  a video game
                  or that  media  news becomes your 'life'

The poison oak turning red in the continuity of the underbrush
       Everlasting pearly wisdom  reseeding like crazy.

Really,  can't see a foot ahead of me,  not sun
     nor moon  nor stars.  So there
          we are in this dim light

contemplating the agro-terrorism of bio-tech corn
   or the phythophora ramorum pathogen
      which strikes an oak to sudden death

Peering at concepts like  'dangerous democracies'
Peering out from under the covers

         in the season of the fog




July 31, 2004