Alchemy: 3 Poems by Charles Bryant

Being the second part of my readings from my collection ’The Body of Air’ (1966) and comprising (a) Kronos (b) A Bird in the Darkness; a Flower at the Heart and (c) Resurrection. These poems explore themes from Jung’s studies in alchemy and relate them to my own evolving psychic development as it then was. At the beginning of the volume is a quote from ’De Chemia’ (About Chemistry) by Senior (the Latinised name of Muhammad ibn Umail): ’Natus sapientiae in aere nascitur’ (the son of wisdom is born in th