ENDINGS — How can we transform the contemporary moment, one of significant shifts in ideas, systems and ways of being, into a time of renewal and new beginnings? “The end of the world” has always haunted mankind, starting with one of the oldest myths, from the Epic of Gilgamesh in 2100 BC to films such as Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia (2011) and the current Covid-19 crisis. For CAConrad poetry and ritual are two ancient technologies that investigate the space between body and spirit. Somewhere between fable and confession, their “(Soma)tic poetry rituals” and their resulting poems are acts of attention and devotion to the present in response to trying conditions of personal and ecological violence. In the live reading and talk (Soma)tic poetry rituals, CA discusses how to make and maintain creative space in our lives. When Albert Einstein said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge,” he was asking us to understand how bringing new ideas for the world is always more important than stagnating under templates of previous paradigms.