Friday, Sept. 23, 2005 As the floodwaters already begin to rise in New Orleans, I am thinking of Varuna. Here is an article from the Planet Waves Weekly archives, which has not appeared on PlanetWaves.net. It's from early July. The Varuna New Moon http://planetwavesweekly.com/drdc8/current/050701.html     e PS: Johnson's Cabinet Watched By Ants By Robert Bly 1 It is a clearing deep in a forest: overhanging boughs Make a low place. Here the citizens we know during the day, The ministers, the department heads, Appear changed: the stockholders of large steel companies In small wooden shoes: here are the generals dressed as gamboling lambs. 2 Tonight they burn the rice-supplies; tomorrow They lecture on Thoreau; tonight they move around the trees, Tomorrow they pick the twigs from their clothes; Tonight they throw the fire-bombs, tomorrow They read the Declaration of Independence; tomorrow they are in church. 3 Ants are gathered around an old tree. In a choir they sing, in harsh and gravelly voices, Old Etruscan songs on tyranny. Toads nearby clap their small hands, and join The fiery songs, their five long toes trembling in the soaked earth.