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Menagerie for the Seven Chakras single work   poetry   "Sidewise the traveller"
Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 Menagerie for the Seven Chakras
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Notes

  • Author note: The seven chakras or energy centres in eastern philosophy are: vii: muladhara, base; vi. swadhisthana, sacrum; v. manipura, solar plexus; iv. anahata, heart; iii.vishuddi, throat; ii. ajna, inner eye; i. sahasrara, crown. The sequence is always lowest to highest.
  • This poem is in seven numbered and titled stanzas: vii: muladhara, crab; vi. swadhisthana, skink; v. manipura, spur-winged plover; iv. anahata, doe; iii. vishuddi, magpie; ii. ajna, cat; i. sahasrara, white-faced heron.

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