<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Ancient Continuities<div><br></div><div>When we change our watchbands</div><div>or our shoes every day, don a new</div><div>pair of jeans in the morning, build</div><div>an entire world economy on faster</div><div>replacement; when we wring just an</div><div>instant's interest from transient models</div><div>of <i>now</i>, will we watch passively</div><div>as one age of consumption succumbs</div><div>to the next, the next?</div><div>If I had our foremothers' wisdom,</div><div>I'd feel our drumming heartbeats</div><div>link us with Earth's womb</div><div>(so nearly emptied now, nearly sealed)</div><div>and with the Moon, our ancient</div><div>center of time. Only half our mothers'</div><div>wisdom remains on the shelf, to be quartered,</div><div>quartered and served like a slice of pizza,</div><div>separated from the whole round crust.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>- Andrea English</div></body></html>