posted March 16, 2003 07:45 PM            

so the ancient texts do say

a time for one to pray for Light -- to reassess one's true goal
and purpose for being ... the need for seeing the truth
and for discovering wrong from right" Pages 329-330

As you can tell from the above quote, Canto Twelve is about The Saturn Seven Cycle. It's short, but it's amazing. Linda shares with us her special secret for making the symbol for Saturn! The only sad part is at the end, when Linda receives Snyder's death certificate in the mail.

"staring at his death certificate, duly mailed to me
by the undertaker

as his next-of-kin

yes, we were kin
he was, in fact -- my twin

you public servants, did you know that ?
we were twin souls
separated by the surgery of sudden death
with no anesthetic to ease the pain
did you know that ? do you care at all ?

then I stared at his name, after the printed word Deceased :
and after the printed Cause of Death :
was typed a single word : pneumonia

it was a kindness -- kind of the doctor
to write pneumonia in the blank space, when the cause of his death
was really -- drowning
drowning in an alcoholic sea

.. or was it grief
for the three

or was it .. me ?

yes, kind doctor, with a strange sort of name
written in a dwarf-like scrawl
at the very bottom of the page, where it was printed
Signature of Physician :

that's where they should have printed
his name -- his name !

he wanted so, oh ! he wanted so .. to heal
and he always felt that, had he remained in medical school
he could have healed and saved them -- all three

'but I couldn't even heal myself'
he said" Page 341