Albert J. LaChance's Jonah : A Prophecy at the Millennium, a mystical epic poem nine years in the making, takes readers, like the biblical Jonah, on a journey through the depths of the sea in the belly of the whale.

As we pass the decay and destruction which we have heaped upon our earth, LaChance carries us back to the primordial moment before the creation. We witness the birth of the universe and the return to the garden before its desecration. As we are transported through the poem, we reemerge across the sea wiser for our journey

With a bold voice and strong vision, LaChance paints in Jonah: A Prophecy at the Millennium a picture of the unbreakable union between Father God and Mother Earth, reminding us that if we continue to degrade the planet, we not only destroy her but ourselves as well.

Excerpt- The Joy of Life

... O holy

Night, night shimmering with divinity,

Aves of the moon cooling the anxious earth,

Stars, harmonies of flickering ecstasies ,

Spasms in the womb of the night...

Hail woman, your friend is with you!

But how might he comfort you?

Your soul resplendent in virginity

Your body full in birth's extremity

At the summit of your femininity?

Hail woman your friend is with you!

The mind dreaming everywhere is dreaming here.

Here is the epiphany in sweet screams and hair.

The flower of the pubis is opening, aching,

Bleeding in the agony of birth...

 

Spirit dreams and a human child is born.

Soul and body are one epiphany. Before time,

Before light, before life from light became,

This thought was, this flesh was, and this

Thought, this flesh became life of you and me.

We two, in love, are one epiphany. O my child,

Mind and matter, soul and body, woman and man,

These are one epiphany.

Forever fresh, forever

Spring, the female and the rosebud opening.

Eternal life is blossoming. Spirit/God is dreaming.

Eternal life is blossoming in this most holy night.