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

RANDY ROARK

Blue

that he should learn to love her

and all those around her as home

or flow into her

and be from her nevermore

in want of affection

not asking how or why––

to demonstrate in sudden chills the heart’s

perplexity and bitterness

in what he most vividly remembered

as if it all came from some memory

blown about by anxious winds

of which he had nothing to fear.

[Originally published in NHS 1999, http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs99/1999/roark.html.]