20.04.2020

When geometric diagrams and digits

Are no longer the keys to living things,

When people who go about singing and kissing

Know deeper things than the great scholars,

When society is returned once more

To unimprisoned life, and to the universe,

And when light and darkness mate

Once more and make something entirely transparent,

And people see in poems and fairy tales

The true history of the world,

Then our entire twisted nature will turn

And run when a single secret word is spoken.

Never a truer word written since this was scribed by Novalis (1772 – 1801) and translated by Robert Bly. Illustration from my favourite Kay Neilsen for East of the Sun, West of the Moon.

And thank you to - and for - the remarkable mama maven @spellsoftruth for reminding me of this poem which speaks so deeply to our shared world view.

What fairy tale are you living this week, darklings?