H
e a r t S o n s & H e a r t
D a u g h t e r s of
A l l e n G i n s b e r g
N
a p a l m H e a l t h S p a : R
e p o r t 2 0 1 4 : A r c h i v e s E d i t i o n
CHRIS FUNKHOUSER
Landscape
7:30 A.M.
hillside above
air
still cool steam
from all mouths
turkeys &
roosters crow
below
short
pines
ferns moss &
long-stem cactus
light clouds sky
bright
sunshine
prevails
strains
of dialect
snorting
a pig
feeling
it could have
been the same
one hundred two
hundred five hundred
years ago
family
dwellings thatch
or shaped mud
from
Cortez to the CIA
survival
corn
growing everywhere
[Originally
published in NHS 1990, http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs90/index.html#37.]