Poem by Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D. in Celebration of Pacifica Graduate Institute’s Forty Year Anniversary 2016

Posted by Erik Davis on May 16, 2016 9:48:51 AM

By Dennis Patrick Slattery 

Pacificas Then and Now

Between similar and same

appears  a cavern of dry ice bluish in sunlight.

Some of us repel deep into the cave’s

narrowing crevasse

but such descent will not alter

history’s melting cap.

My history, your memory

frame themselves through the shutters

of the present.

Now is when a crouching likeness

poses on steel claws where

you, I, and selected others

 people the same space

in time’s rhythmic heart

where Uranos-Pluto conjunct.

The prompt is sufficient

for us to recall one another

delight in fields of insight

here now and for all time.

Let’s agree then to begin with the first forty.

The next will be similar, yes,

like yesterdays’ forms and shapes.

But they are hardly the same

and will repel duplication.

This we can count on.

By Dennis Patrick Slattery In Celebration of Pacifica Graduate Institute’s Forty Year Anniversary 2016

Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D. Core Faculty, Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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