June 7. To get a head start

                             Yea, but I’m too old
                             Yea, but I’m growing too old

                 He is in the mountains and in the streams, fields
            Call upon the Lord Ganesha and he
        will appear

  In 1960, when she was in her late twenties, the poet Joanne Kyger (1934–2017) joined Gary Snyder in Japan. From there, the two traveled to India, together with Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, where they met the Dalai Lama. Below are entr…