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Selection Day

I find it amusing
on this empowering Election
impassioned Selection Day

To wonder why
we have bedroom communities
and yet not live and thrive communications
for eco-political dialogue,
and not so much partisan
disempowering debate,
against co-empowering governance,

Why not more nakedly
and transparently choose Win/Win constrained
depolarizing conversations?

Compassionate communion enlightenment services?

Where we democratically place
our sacred household couches
and easy co-empowering chairs
for restoring local through global peace
EarthJust inside excathedra

AnthroCentric Thrones for dogmatically unnaked shame
and absence of win/lose transparent blame,
unnaturally enspirited
degenerative straight white privileged silence

Erasing deep bed/dead inside-only room
for hearing older outside pre-historic
pre-verbalized
co-passionate climaxing
Selection Day and Night Choices

Inside/outside
ego/EarthJustice
ecologically compassionate
sacred re-membering Voice Choices
for informing better win/win
nature/spirit thriving
bicameral Election Day
indoor health
outdoor wealth
naked transparenly ReJoices.

Overwhelming inside apartheid habitat Voices
provoking eco-political Choices
confusing powers of inside bed/deadrooms
with nature’s places to divest
and slowly die
by severing our climatic selves
inside a pre-visionary constrained
covered “humane” means not nakedly divine,
Either/Or
Outside/Inside
Earth ecological relationship
against Ego theological elationship
co-climaxing naked bedroom
transparent living room couched
crouched
encroaching Yang/Yintegral
bilateral Universal/Unitarian ReView

Of knowing only ghettoized apartheid
from EarthMother’s healing Holy Spirit,
holonic
holistic
integral
synergetic

Interfaith gospel webs
for reconnecting inside NaturalYang Voices
with outside Spirited Yintegral Choices
for Win/Win communication
co-passioning
co-operative
co-governing
sacred habitats,

CoInvested in
regenerative
polyphonic feelings
favoring polyculturally robust health
over monoculturally degenerative win/lose
either/or
all or nothing
left-brain patriarchal dominant
capitalistically competitive
InsideVoices only
AnthroSupremacist Choices Matter.

Rather than selecting
live and thrive eco-political
regenerative
outside restoring EarthJustice

Which is not unnakedly
nor dissonantly ghettoized lose/lose nihilist
denialist
All or Nothing fundamentalist
left-brain egocentric
anthropocentric DeathCulture

Inside bipolarizing
cognitive/affective tragic chronic dissonance

Absence of active hope
and liberal love
for sacred/secular EarthMother
living outdoor natured communities
also inside bedroom spirited compassionate
eco/theo-logical reflection Selection

This climaxing Election Inside/Outside Day
for choosing Green Feminist Freedom
EarthParadise,
nakedly transparent
inside/outside CoPassion
bedroom preverbal
intuitive-indigenous communities
and living habitat room
for EarthJust healthy communication chairs

Uncouched
uncommodified
immodest
shameless
and blameless
win/win copassionate couches,

Speaking Outside healthy Choices
Inside wealthy Voices.

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Pandemic-Climate Health Recovery Team

In Colchester, CT,
and possibly in your town too,
we have a LongTerm ReCoVery Committee
looking at 20/20 prevision
for post-pandemic climate health revisions
for wealthy local and global EarthJustice.

So, what have I noticed
that might be economically
and ecologically win/win useful?

In a post-pandemic
post-Trump StraightWhitePatriarchal-capitalist cabal,
post-BusinessAsUsual monoculturing economic climates
of All-Or-Nothing
Either-Or
Win-Lose competitive health-care,

We over-value
fundamentally left-brain privileged subconscious
and/or unconscious bipolar Lose-Lose
absolutist
supremacist
xenophobic
anthropocentric slimates;

For sorta virally nasty primates
and for our actively curious win/win compassionate
engaged allies
restorative justice and peace mediators
co-invested witnesses
co-empathic cooperatively co-mentors?

For political,
ecological,
and possibly even win/win systematic theological,
mutual
and eco-spiritual,
physical
and metaphysical,
compassionate verbal
and non-verbal
therapeutic mediating communication systems
at our local bioregional level.

  1. Our natural and internationally commodified food
    distribution systems
    are less cost/effectively efficient
    and less environmentally friendly
    than old-fashioned
    local cooperative gardens and family farms
    organically planned
    and community implemented
    to deliver fresh locally grown
    cooperatively-owned,
    produced
    and privately
    and commercial-public
    health and wellness wealth consumed.
  2. Chronically stressed
    by social-polarized politically
    and economically divesting
    unraveling distancing,
    human nature looks for more multicultural ways
    to reconnect with nearby domestic
    win/win healthy and safer Animated Natures.

I have neighbors who had to take a number
to adopt a rescued dog.

I have neighbors whose household income is so reduced
they could afford to continue pet health care
cooperative consumer-owned insurance payments
if a local vet petcare network
with sliding fee and volunteer time-equity payment plans
were available.

I suddenly have a lot of neighbors
who are way more cooperatively invested
in the win/win companionship
of their healthy non-mask wearing dogs
and cats
than they are in masked
or unmasked me.

[Which is OK
because I’ve found myself reduced
more recently seduced
by the sexiness of a MotherTree
standing starkly now this autumn
in Her scandalous scaled
unmasked
unleafed
vulnerable
transparently communicating
nudity.]

  1. I was waiting
    at least six feet apart
    in the Goodwill line
    eighteen miles outside Colchester
    remembering a mom
    who is also an Economic Development Commissioner
    observing that Colchester lacks
    clothing
    and household goods retail
    because we are a population under-scaled,
    not yet over-infested with win/lose big-box
    retailed
    bought-and-sold
    corporate monocultural
    capitalist economic systems
    overpowering cooperative networks.

And I’m remembering
all the consumer fun I had,
when my kids were still children,
shopping in good-used consignment shops;
a more suburban version
of Goodwill
cooperative-urban.

Then I remembered Colchester,
a new location to me
moved in during this pandemic,
is quietly rural
and village bedroom community,
where sweaters
under and over my arms
wait to travel with me
to our new home;

These may well have come
from Colchester to Norwich,
waiting to travel back again.

I wonder
what it would be like
to have local clothing and household goods
shopping options while riding bike
to a local CoOp and ConSignment Shop

Where good used stuff is further discounted
for CoOp consumers and re-salers,
owner co-managers
include a multicultural/disabilities
human resource savvy
LongTerm Win/Win RePurposing Team.

  1. I also noticed
    I have become so horribly contained
    by our national and international addiction
    to win/lose partisan debates
    and vicious circle entertainments
    and mutually antagonistic
    economically viscous capitalistic political assumptions

I forget Earth’s more Whole EcoSystemic
Win/Win regenerative economics
politically empowering,
cooperatively mediating,
mentoring long-term restorative
resilient regeneration

Through Her long-term climate
of health/wealth-care
cooperative wellness trends.

I’ve been listening to local candidates
for democratically healthy leadership positions,

Noticing how many are attorneys,
trained well by and for an adversarial
self-advertising debate
left-brain dominant
punishing win/lose competitions
in eco-political
non-communicating
non-virtuously imprisoning
partisan debate

Rather than discussing
long-term reconnecting peace opportunities
for local/global
ego/eco-compassionate co-investment.

I also remember
one of many recent zooming conversations
I’ve tried not to have
since Marching 20/20

Listening to an attorney
retrained by win/win-seeking
restorative justice mediating
therapeutic process
progressively mentoring more of a deep listening
multiculturally intelligent
bicamerally balancing
good secular/sacred,
ecological/theological/neurological

Interfaith news
re-ligioning eco-political compassionate communication
for cooperatively empowering
community developing
health/wealth-care systems

And collaboratively enlightening
wealth/health care EarthJustice
local/global
poli/economic
polypathic win/win
cooperative network development.

Colchester
must already include
attorneys
and public/private health-care financial investors
and business LeftBrain dominant win/lose
non-fundamentalistic moderators,
more win/win evangelizers,
mentors anticipating other multiculturally ecosystemic thinkers
and collaborative feelers,
deductive/inductive balanced teachers and parents,
preachers and win/lose penitents
capable of 20/20 envisioning/revisioning
win/win compassionate communication

For healthier and wealthier
resilient,
indigenously and multiculturally resonant,

[post-pandemic lose/lose,
post-win/lose
anti-ecologically misanthropocentric risks]

For Long-term regenerative
health/wealth-care,
post-pandemic climate restoration

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The Curiously Democratic Invitation

RE: Cooperative MultiCultural HealthCare Development

Dear Neighbors, Community Civic Civilians:

Curious about win/win economic and political games
co-investing and co-empowering

Past
and present
and healthy regenerative future civilizations,
civil rights
and civic-recentering
curiously interdependent,

Both analogically Either/Or RightWing dominant
and metaphorically Both/And LeftWing prominent
ego/eco enlightening
systemically cooperative
thinking/feeling to ask questions
and imagine, together,
possible win/win healthy and safe future opportunities
without quite so much win/lose unhealthy unsafe family
and individual,
global and local community climate risk

Remembering shadows of indigenous
intuitive
intimate nature/spirit consciousness
of sacred ecosystemic climax worshipers
and secular multiculturally awesome neighbors
presenting cooperatively co-investing potential
in our communal ecosystemic habitat
for all health-and-safety communal EarthTribes.

You are receiving this invitation
to a virtual win/win community economic development PlaySpace
biased and privileged toward cooperative
democratic win/win health systems

A virtual neighborhood multicultural recovery dialogue
including local faith communities
with contemporary democracy empowering missions
interfaith eco-politically enlightening discussions

Remembering
re-ligioning physical empowerment
through civil rights
and civic mind-bodied
rights and lefts bicamerally depolarizing
toward win/win historical
personal and political
and economic co-investment experiences

Multicultural
metaphysical interior felt faith
in democratizing spiritual-mental health
within compassionate communication templates
of non-violent communion
transubstanting left/right multilateral union,

As one interdependent civil civic community
cooperative win/win
co-investing in Economic Development Virtual Games
for 20/20 collaborative revisioning
and 50/50 co-responsive
private/public realtime healthy outcomes
through ego/eco-systemic multiculturing
empowering long-term
GoldenRule restoration wealth

Of cooperative democratic win/win Trust,
ecosystemic
polymathic
polypathic
polyvagal
polymorphic
polynomial Yang
with Not(Not) binomial
polyphonic Yintegrity

Rooted in historical/multicultural
EcoPolitical NonZero-Soul
Whole Systemic
Compassionately Curious
Local through Municipal through Global through Munificent
NonViolent Communication Systems
of and for
cooperatively causing and effecting
Restorative PostPandemic EarthJustice.

With Warm Namaste Wishes,

Your Community Economic Development Commission

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DisConnecting Dogmas

Our humane-empowering species,
steeped in regenetic history
of human nature connecting
disconnecting
reconnecting
preconnecting,

Has an unfortunate tendency,
especially in Abrahamic historical traditions,
to imagine that our own religious tradition
is not only free of historical-cultural adaptation
but also the one supremely right-wing Way
orthodox Truth
healthy Life.

And, further, guilty of inhumane hubris,
of condemning those outside our dogmatic Fold,
our LeftBrain dominant individualistic EgoFrame,
to lack of redemptive grace,
to after-life Hell,
to lack of true communion
within today’s Earth
holonic
regenerative Spirit
of inclusive win/win recommunication,
empowerment
and enlightenment,
sacred awe
and secular wonder.

Due to this patriarchally influenced
left-brain privileged assumption,
HumanNature lives disconnected
in a win/lose racing economy,
determined by our orthodox religious
and other monoculturally privileged associations
and dues,
catechisms
and formative scriptural over-simplifications
and decontextualized
unhistoricized
dis-enculted
starkly isolated from human experience
studies,

When the practices
and beliefs
of those raised inside the Fold
become obviously heterodox,
our too often StraightWhiteMale authority voices
move toward excommunication,
shunning future cooperative
mutually creolizing empowerment,
remaining true-blue
dogmatically zealous
about our hidden
left-brain dominant
Earth-colonizing
anthropocentric mission,
messianism,
millennialism

And this left-brain overpowered indulgence
has repeated this disconnection,
this unredemptive severance,
this patriarchal apartheid preference
since prehistoric nature/spirit indigenous tribes,
long before Abrahamic written stories of Judaism,
Christian redevelopment,
and Islamic reform came into Earth’s empowering
and enlightening
constantly changing
evolving
revolving
spiraling regenerative connecting
communing
communicating traditions
nutritions
communions shared by all God’s living creatures.

One way of reading the economic
and political turns in the Gospels
is to see the story
of Pharisees
Saducees
and TaxCollectors
as Jewish authorities
who wanted to excommunicate EarthCreator’s Messiah
for stepping outside dogmatic institutional lines
of orthodoxy
and institutional
corporate
empire investment.

Rather than adapting,
co-acclimating to Jesus’s spiritual experience
of a Creator Abba
of regenerative
nurturing
co-passionate Love,
These WealthyElite saw their own unchanging Torah,
established commandments
educational and administrative regulations
dogmatic structures
and long histories of authoritative rabbinical interpretations
of Jewish Law,
as a final
closed religious system,
too privileged,
too Chosen,
supremely endowed with Yahweh’s divine teachings,
to be inconveniently challenged
by anyone with a deviant spiritual experience.

Academic awareness of positive integral deviance
is a modern empowering
enlightening
reconnecting hope with good faith.

What might we learn from this disconnecting
dogmatic
dark side of our GoodNews epistles?

Perhaps less arrogant
and internally preoccupied authorities
might appreciate our more multiculturally healthy milieu
within which all historically developed traditions,
cultures,
religions
have emerged
to describe connection integrity
and proscribe disconnection chaos.

Perhaps our positive deviant minds
and hearts
and spirits
and souls could be encouraged
to find a better religious tradition fit
to become more integrally accepted
and interdependently valued
as s/he/they continue their spiritual/natural journeys
into empowering multiculturally synergetic Truths
enlightening Ways
compassionate Lives,

Rather than the current hubris
of excommunicating
from the one and only True sacred Fold
in divine flowing rivers
of polyculturally communing
sacred EarthTime,

Revolving
evolving
spiraling regenerative climate and culture Changes,
positive diversity,
healthy empowering Missions
for enlightening wealthy spirit/nature vocations,

Reconnecting where each individual
has been,
accepted as now experienced,
and pointed in a new community support direction
toward that good faith
we hope to multiculturally become,
tomorrow’s peaceful practitioners
restoring Justice For All,
with no one left outside Earth’s
empowering local
enlightening global
Fold.

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Powerfully Polite Imaginations

Imagine with me
that your local
political
economic community,
municipality,
bioregion
is a communication network
already at hand,
like a potentially benign kingdom
or mutually informed democracy,

Which is what some residents actively hope for
as a peaceful sacred communion
and others engage in active voting campaigns
and political party platform design
for restoring secular justice communities
as architects for cooperative economic co-investments.

Within these secular and sacred,
economic and political,
empowering and enlightening
positive communication networks
are ecologically healthy,
and theologically wealthy,
robust and resonant non-violent relationships
of cooperatively positive compassion.

Imagine that ecological resilience
and theological multicultural resonance
within and beyond this communication network
extend back through past regenerations

Of this particular empowering moment
and human enlightening place
on Earth
not merely opposing subjective functions of non-communication,
but actively embracing
externally natural experience
compared with internally spiritual memory,
as appositional compare/contrast experience,
appositive flow-forms
of dipolar co-arising functions
for power and light communion

Yang LeftBrain nature
actively communicating power
with Yin RightBrain spirit
recessively intercommuning light
with empowering secular Yang
with enlightening sacred Yin
with power
with light
communicating bicameral revolving spirals
bilateral
binomial community communication
positively viral energy.

Imagine we politically
and economically,
ego/theo-logically
and ecologically agree,
across all current
and past multicultural reconnecting systems,
that our communication network’s most resonant
and resilient co-passionate purposes
are healthy empowerment
of all life systems
and wealthy enlightenment
of all human-divinely inspired polycultural
polypathic
polyphonic
polyvagal neurological
positive win/win communication networks.

How would you
democratically
and multiculturally explore
design
plan
and democratically implement
and evaluate
and re-evaluate
and redesign
and replan
and restore justice and organic peace
within and beyond
this secular/sacred
bicameral
multilateral
democratic group win/win game
for empowering
enlightening
cooperative communication
life energy ego/eco-system?

Could we learn to see
these diverse cultures
of all enlightening good faith climates
as pleasingly interdependent,
influenced by birth
in diverse historically empowered eras
and culturally enlightened communal
climate experiences?

Rather than judging
what empowers good faith rationalism
and what darkens bad faith superstition,
could we find ecological
and theological
power and light analyses
that actively research win/win comparative values
and lose/lose disvalues
and in-between win/lose suboptimal misvalues
for all of us
as one holistic
robust
resonant
resilient communication network?

Together urgently committed
to empowering local and global health,
to enlightening globally localized
powerful and yet polite wealth.

Imagine with me
that our local
political
Earth economic community,
municipality,
bioregion
is a communication network
already at hand,
like a potentially benign kingdom of God the Father
and a mutually informed Holonic EcoFeminist Spirit
of polite
healthy-power/wealthy-light
EarthJustice
restorative compassion network.

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ProHealth Virus

Heightened global consciousness
of viral threats to health and safety
seem to now create
a multicultural shift
transcending liberal and conservative
responses to mortal fear
and anger against immortal powers

Longing for humane redemption
through depolarizing eco-political contests
for more inclusively cooperative
and less monoculturally competitive
economic ecosystemic wealth
and democratic political health.

We are noticing
along with,
and in-between,
our growing fears about,
and anger against,
each threatening unknown other,

That health care giving
and receiving
is not a luxury for a few
but an essentially holistic right
of everyone
if we would have a health-wealthy society
economy
culture
public political empowering democracy
rooted in mutual trust
we are cooperatively learning
how to care with
and for each other.

“Health care”
grows in its nuanced frames of reference
and boundaried specializations
and outgrows professionalized fossilizations
to more explosively include
individual healthy democracy rights
to mental care
physical care
natural care
spiritual care
secular medical care
sacred meditative care
disease care
unease care
ease of perpetual GoldenRule care…

This health and safety care virus
teaches through a global transitional experience,
health care as an empowering right
has a day-to-day domestic
local,
for some, eco-feminist
trusted awareness
of a corollary Earth-consciousness:

Health care giving and receiving
is a multicultural cooperative responsibility
to multigenerationally give and receive
the healthiest, most trust-filled, communication
nutrition
energy
power
light
as our current integrity’s potential
provides sentient resources
toward regenerative
health and safety intent
purpose
meaning.

Basic health care norms
of compassionate
multiculturally valued
cooperatively invested communication
are best learned redundantly
at home
school
church, temple, synagogue, assembly hall, meeting house
town meeting
candidate forum
climate health planning meeting
multicultural appreciation dialogue
book discussion circle
constitutional convention
scripture study circle
political party meeting
uniting nations gathering
cooperative development planning session,

Each new person
and family greeting
of namaste,
peace,
robust and resilient wealth blessing
of health care giving
as sentient Earth’s compassionately viral
GoldenRule receiving,
transmitting,
communicating community communion.

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Not Often Enough

Sometimes,
not often enough,
I connect with all the good Ones
who grow so much in me

And
when we re-member these times
lost in right now space,
We gather no grand finale harvest

But remain so very grateful
for whom We have been
and where We have gone
and when We might romp once again
before this time’s curious end.

Bending just, and unjustly, around
life’s next grateful
fateful
corner,

Zero summing all these great Ones
who grow so much in graceful We.

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Communioned States of Ecstasy

Lying under the dynamic heart
of ancient theological reflection
is experience,
as is true of any resonant theology
of ecological relationships
between resonant feelings
and resilient energies;

Experience
and ecological reflection about
compassionate
spiritually-felt communion,
touch
sensations
pressures
and plunges
of win/win universal relationships.

A theological term
for this heightened
and deepened
and widened cooperative
contemplative management
and ownership
and mutual becoming together
sacred experience
is “transubstantiation”

Of exterior wine
as also interior blood shared,

Of natural bread
as also spiritual embodiment,

Of Yang health energy
as also Yin wealth
of win/win light flow
between
and among visualized
smelled
tasted
felt
shared sensory chakras,

Of exterior nature
as also interior spirit,

Of secular bipolar experience
and ecological reflection,
as also sacred dipolar transposition,
co-empathic
bilateral
both/and compassion,
and theological/ecological
spiritual/natural energy
for co-embodied healthy contemplation

Of outside being
as also inside becoming
compassionate win/win communion
sacredly together
urgently needed,
and climatically wanted
even more than co-emergently needed
seeded,
co-invested
much more than segregated apart,
antagonistically win/lose co-divested.

Transubstantiation of health care communion
empowerment politics,

Love overwhelming
economically unenlightened win/lose competitions
for more prevention of future
individualistic
anthropocentric
nationalistic pathologies.

Transubstantiation,
like communion,
the ultimate win/win
therapeutic
ego/eco-political experience;
resonant Right
resilient Left.

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Local Living Matters

I hear things right side down
and bottom left side up
as I get older
so consider the source.

Anyway,
I hear Colchester Connecticut Democrats,
and some cross-registering Republicans,
want to establish
a multicultural health commission
concerned about military
and local police mercenaries
feeling discriminated against,
picked on,
unloved,
left out,
under-valued,
ignored,
neglected,
abused,
shot at.

T Rocko is concerned
such a vast investment
in multicultural respect,
solidarity of resonance,
integrity of long-term resiience
through commitment to public dialogue
rather than contentious debate,
could only be justified
with quantitative data

Adding up how much
anti-militarism
and anti-police prejudice
exists
and costs
in Colchester.

In this political
and economic moment
of social cooperative distancing,
dissociation,
scape-goating,
rabid polarization,
toxic partisanship

We need a baseline,
says he,
of mutual disregard,
to measure regenerative progress
and/or degenerative retrenchment
from community integral investments
in health remediation,
inclusive wealth
for future cooperative governing generations.

Rudko,
self-appointed sole guardian
of our public investment purse,
responds,

Supporters of Armed Lives Matter
are “making a generalization…
not based on facts”
that silence means discontent,
speaks echo-chamberly
of feeling an unhealthy
lack of mutually fulfilling safety

Too risky
for speaking up transparently
to listen vulnerably
to all cooperative opportunity “Other”
and “Alien”
and “Immigrant”
And especially Not Straight Male Dominant
voices,
narratives,
aggressive predation stories
of relentless win/lose debate
rather than cooperative win/win dialogue
with social and multicultural intelligence.

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Winter’s Writing Choices

Approaching winter…

OK, maybe encroaching mid-winter
of life’s seasonal span
with resonantly compelling grace,
perhaps even transparent vulnerability,
feels controversial,
too laissez-faire

Too much courage
in declaring preliminary success
with too little curiosity
about what happens next
on planet Earth

Continuing to revolve all four seasons
dynamics
holistic lenses.

I recall the poet’s admonition
to not go quietly
into this winterish
cold night.

Life’s final reflective opportunity
does not invite quiet
so much as impassioned peace
of a windless snowfall
blanketing all I can see
and more faintly hear,
touch and awkwardly feel,
smell and bittersweetly taste
unsafe passage.

I recently moved from autumn habitat,
a creative tension between summer’s midlife climax
and this new winter habit
above Connecticut’s exquisite Salmon River.

This is a compromised writer’s winter hermitage
shared with my son who cannot speak
but can roar,
who cannot walk by himself
but can scoot
and belly laugh at his own internal sensations
and my external sensational sounds.

And, following Daquan
from my fall habitat
to winter’s eremetical search for peace,
however coldly displaced,
with social
and political
and spiritual
and natural distancing,

Behind Daquan
are daily in-home nurses
and his most avid companion,
my romantically distanced husband.

He comes bearing gifts
of clothes,
cleaning supplies,
far too much meaty food
for a proper hermitage
and not enough
for sufficient redemption
and for self-forgiveness.

He comes unaware of my ecofeminist wintering spirit,
longing for Earth’s warm womb justice
restoring peace
resilient through all four seasons
of present
past
and future Earth lives.

My ecofeminist lineage
feels too white to him,
not a journey for him
and our two brown sons
and my brown and cerebral palsied daughter
and Daquan.

So, this writer’s winter hermitage
remains newly compromised by past fall
and summer
and even spring
of extended multicultural family life.

May it always be so
or no,
I’m not sure which to pray for
or against
as I quietly write
into this warm and peaceful night,
just right,
not too dim or bright.

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