Ancient Continuities - Andrea English

[Larry Robinson]

Ancient Continuities

When we change our watchbands
or our shoes every day, don a new
pair of jeans in the morning, build
an entire world economy on faster
replacement; when we wring just an
instant's interest from transient models
of now, will we watch passively
as one age of consumption succumbs
to the next, the next?
If I had our foremothers' wisdom,
I'd feel our drumming heartbeats
link us with Earth's womb
(so nearly emptied now, nearly sealed)
and with the Moon, our ancient
center of time. Only half our mothers'
wisdom remains on the shelf, to be quartered,
quartered and served like a slice of pizza,
separated from the whole round crust.

	- Andrea English
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