regarding Joni's finding the word Hejira......The American poet Anne Sexton, friend of Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath etc., wrote a sequence of Poems about departures, and the first poem is called, I believe "Beginning the Hejira". A definition of the word is included, same as that I remember being in the sheet music to Joni's opus. I always felt Joni was influenced by Sexton's work, and remember too somewhere a description of lawn sprinklers hissing in a Sexton Poem. I'm far from my books tonight, but I'll look it up when I get home, if anybody's interested. Sexton was not shy of myth-making herself, talked in her letters about fictions sometimes being truer than truth. I'm paraphrasing but sympathetic. And guilty with my own bear stories.....that's entertainment. In one of Jean Rhys's books, too, [I think it was "After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie"] there's a passage describing humans as creatures that crawl and fly. Like in "crawl and fly you and I." At any rate, there's good reading in these women. Who knows how things fall together,eh? I tend to think so long as art happens, it doesn't matter. Take care all. greenstudio
