The Archetypal Plant John Pinkerton and diversity

and diversity

and social unrest

The title poem borrows its structure from Roget's Thesaurus to spin thirty-nine variations on sounds

first introduced in her previous book

Written from an insider's view

The Archetypal Plant John Pinkerton and diversityRudolf Steiner painted his Archetypal Plant watercolour in 1924, at a time when contemporary scientific methodologies were emerging and nature was being examined under the microscope. In contrast to the dissecting tendencies of natural science, however, Steiner's painting depicts the living, dynamic potential which stands behind the plant lifting us out of the specific genus and providing an image of the growing and formative forces inherent within