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| Cover: So Held By Sky: 5 Gabriola Poets Image taken by Sonja Arntzen |
I propose, among all the other proposals
that we adopt a new movement which I call Four.
It must examine new ways of seeing the Universe
because our mind has been clogged with
the pecking order, not the old ways of nature
or ancient scriptures but
ways harnessed through
blade without chalice, reflection, or conscience
—Universe without soul.
If you add up numbers 1+9+8+4 which equals 22
and 2+2 which equals 4, and the year we are in
2+0+2+0 — it comes down to number four.
Not that everything was destroyed in 1984
but Orwell’s warning — boot on face forever
or reconcile the mind with the heart
the past and with the future.
How can the number four lead to wholeness?
Four directions, four seasons, four horsemen
sword, famine, beasts and plague
could be end times but orthodoxy won’t help us
unless we put earth at the centre
where it has always been our mother.
(this poem appears in the chapbook 'So Held By Sky: 5 Gabriola Poets' who are Sonja Arntzen, Leah Hokanson, Dave Neads, May Partridge, Janet Vickers)
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