‘Spell to Delay the End of Time’ by Anne Champion & Jenny Sadre-Orafai

Now is the traditional time of resolutions, commitments to curb small addictions, a fresh calendar to map out months of better health—all reasonable and incremental changes within the small spheres of our lives as we slough off the rough, ill-fitted 2016. But what if we were to invoke something more powerful than year-end resolutions? What if we committed to the rich power of life, both the darkness and light, wreckage and creation? Jenny Sadre-Orafai and Anne Champion’s poem ‘Spell to Delay the End of Time’ is a flash of silver water in the wilds, a guide for 2017 that we can follow through the trees to our best-lived life.

Amethyst Arsenic