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The Senior Center

The Senior Center was a beehive of active waiting
to die.

Bingo
but not ballroom dancing.

Knitting
but not garden expansions.

Physical therapy
but not yoga
and not chi gong,
much less mindful meditations
sung in four part harmony.

The new guy,
just growing into sixty-five,
asked them
How would we like to be remembered
one hundred years from now?

That doesn’t seem likely,
I know,
but perhaps more likely together
than playing Solitaire
side by side.

I would like to be remembered
as healers of The River
said a somber SeptemberGenerian woman
surrounded by ancient lady friends.

No one needed to ask why.
We all knew
what was coming downriver
for future regenerations
of thirsty toxined minds
with biodiverse bodies.

And so we found younger allies
who owned property along The River,
beginning with the railroad company,
and the Mohegans
and the Pequots,
where a Senior knew a Senior
with a well-placed daughter,
and sometimes a son
of unusual cooperative and long-term focus.

Together we planted firs
and cedars along polluted and denuded banks,
for future generations to manage,
harvest for housing
and furniture
and fiber
and possibly even coffins
waiting for memories of polluted rivers
to die.

That was one hundred years ago
we started
in this regenerative Senior Center,
and still going strong
as each year
a new incoming class
of those who finally reached sixty-five
joined our river healing project,
more recently also producing fruit trees
and berries,
flax
and hemp,
mushrooms
and nuts
and sweetgrass baskets
woven by SeptemberGenerians.

Women and a few surviving men
and some more in-between
smiling together
at the round cedar table in the back,
remembering Elder healers
of our barren land
and naked River.

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Underground Rivers

Underground rivers unsettle thoughts,
feelings on stable ground.

Real estate doesn’t sound as real
with thoughts of hyporheic flow
beneath our feet,
out of sight and sound.

Rivers are meant to have light on top,
transparency.
Underground flow must look more like a furtive capillary
than an upfront tributary,
bringing salvific moisture
down into and across and through
deep ecological roots of fertility.

Hypostatic unions
are contrasts between understory backgrounds
emerging into focal foreground,
like darkness of night’s flowing complexities
from which light emerges each day
then fades again,
like Yang creation stories
emerging from Yin
hypostatic partnering,
hyporheic flow
deep down within ecological consciousness,
subterranean channels
feeding timeless roots
of healthy real estates,
cooperative becoming.

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March Blues River

Rivers of bluesy-greyscale river
flow through her understoried gaze,
sometimes too turbulent,
occasionally too still,
even for her Elder memory stream
with sluggish circulating economy
surrounded by surface-molding
way overly-competitive political
bicameral imbalance and equivocation,
or some days it just feels that way to her,
facing windblown cold effacing light.

Nearing to her share of winter’s oceanic nurture-time,
sea’s streaming into surf’s elation
dilating over gravitas,
tidal flow streams below,
within her Great River of rivers of long-wet time
flowing yet surfing out and up
back and forth
surging heavens and slugging Others,
singing and dancing
eating and absorbing
stressing and struggling,
remembering undertow story
of WaterPlant-ReGeneration
incarnate need to flow back home again
into Earth’s oceanic flow of warm-lit light.

Back to this grey-blues suffering river,
from where this river’s story began
to flow through
her dipolar bifolding BeLovedTime
polyneural balance,
bilaterally waving within March light’s warm
cooperative-bicameral ecoconsciousness,
therapeutic-regenerate enculturing,
eco-mentoring,
frequently windy,
ecosystemic river of life self-identity,
heavy then light,
old then young again,
searching underwater mountains
of lava light’s rich regenerate reward
from whence wet-wave nutrient flow-streams
correlations
co-arising elations
as yummy balanced speed,
regenerating time as warm-love intent
EcoTime derived.

March greyriver blues
jonesing for a warm bright drama volcano,
or maybe just more low-fat granola in plain yogurt,
in front of her more comforting March
noticing nutrient streams
within wood stove’s flaming carbon plates
down below those cooling wet mountains.

Wonders of heat and time
radiate her naked face and hands
creating rivers of flowing memory
as nutrition-delivery intent
drifting grey-blues suffering Elder Rivers.

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River Source

We are each a spring of therapeutic kindness
and pathological unkindness
emerging from and toward a rising river of time,
flowing down deep through universal oceanic absorption,
ebbing back upriver’s EarthBound regeneration
back through time
leaping to confluently touch PresentPresence
if only for a timeless golden moment,
rapturous waterfall of time’s integrity
sweeping back and forth
across Earth’s ecoconscious eyes,
radiantly elational swirling smiling timeless joy
in love with timeless enjoying OtherTimes
CoPresent.

Kindness and unkindness transactions
among collegial parasitic ecotherapists
often unequal in power over potential futures,
produce both generosity and stinginess of empathy,
which responses ecoconsciousness invites
as appropriately proportional
are transactions between mutual water-flow mentors
of gratitude and lack thereof.

River’s Way
invests our human natured
Business as Fluidly Usual,
but Water’s EarthConscious Way
always prefers eco-gravitating
regenerational therapy,
rather than stagnant swamps
seeping monoculture’s stinky toxins,
ebbing lack of love
as healthy nature’s spring.

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Time’s TransParent River

There is nothing weaker than water
But none is superior to it in overcoming the hard,
For which there is no substitute.
(Laotse, “Nothing Weaker Than Water”, Lin Yutang, trans.)

That weakness of mind and body overcomes strength
And unitarian co-gentleness overcomes universalist rigidity,
No Yang does not know;
No yin can put into practice.

Therefore the Sage Says:
“Who receives unto self the MLK calumny of the world
Is the preserver of an equilibrious state.
Who bears the dissonant sins of the world’s living systems
Is the resonantly full-conscious mentor within this NOW world moment.”

Straight words seem crookedly dissonant, distorted, unparadigmed.
Evolution’s Time seems revolutionary.
(Adapted from “Nothing Weaker Than Water”)

Prophecy’s weakness is lack of redemptive empowerment.

The strength of prophecy
for redemptive effectiveness
is its weakness
as culturally dissonant.
Too much dissonance is dismissed as insanity
or sainthood
or martyrdom
or suicide.

Too little dissonance is not co-prophetic
and therefore not redemptive.

This cutting edge
tipping wu-wei point of rationality
is the weakness of optimally ebbing and flowing water
as ecological synergy
as Positive Yang balancing Negentropic Yin-Yin
Win-Win
Double SpaceTime Binding Teleology.

When Yin-Water absorbs Earth,
then She becomes stagnant entropy,
chaos,
disorganized
dissonantly dismayed
unable to continue flowing,
flexing,
fluxing,
surfing.
A Universalist Yin EcoCenter
evolves as stagnant pond
what were dynamic rivers,
seasonally surfing oceans–
a Holding Space wherein Time stands relativistically
and 3-dimensionally,
still,
like a vacuum of interior landscaped atmosphere;
more likely to produce a horrific monoculture
of mold and mosquitoes
than motion
and revolutionary change.
For this we want Time’s river function,
swelling springs of Transmillennial comprehensive consciousness.

Western Business-As-Usual culture
understands love as “kindness.”
Coincidentally,
Eastern permacultural comprehensive consciousness of Time
as panentheistic and teleological “love”
evokes mutual, co-redemptive, namaste–
A Buberian mutually mentored I-Thou bow.

Love,
mutual gratitude of synergetic energy,
requires a Bucky Fuller dynamic balance
between freedom to comprehend and embrace
our eco-center in each eternal moment,
as subconscious freedom from awareness of only Ego,
our more limited Left-brain’s “small-self” center.

Kindness, and unkindness,
are gratefully, and rudely,
extended, not extended,
to ourselves as empathized “Other.”
These are ego-ionic actions
to teach us how to be more mutually generous
in each of our primal relationships
with Love’s ecological comprehension
of Time’s Yangish and Yinnish rebalancing ways.

What is fair,
within contentious issues,
is found where our mutually held eco-center points,
always wu-wei midway between
the most Yang-power value extreme
and the most Yin laissez-faire “both-and” inclusively unitarian absorbency.
Nature abhores a perfect vacuum of either Yang or Yin;
omnisciently insists on Left with Right languaged intelligence.

When we identify with a “downstream” yin position,
our underdog empathy extends to include
reaching toward increasingly marginalized and irrational
“Other” position of empathic identity.
Our eco-centric Right-brain starts from this position,
as a holonic reiteration of “Self’s” encultured history,
then flows economic and ecological “generosity”
of loving values
“upstream” toward our mutually mentored,
taught,
tautly experienced,
planted and rooted and trimmed and pulled, and encoded lexicon,
decomposed and empathized,
intuited Yang position,
looking for that tipping point boundary of the collective unconscious
wide enough to capture all synergetically oriented reiterators
racing issues through our surfing moments and lives.

Justice trickles up and out,
as well as down and in,
washing back and forth through fields of unconscious cognitive dissonance,
to emerge toward a consensus of collectively generous,
but not overly generous,
merciful,
inclusive coredeemer ecojustice.
An enculturation laundry,
but go easy on the yin-bleach.

If I lacked something of the “underdog,”
the “understory,”
the “criminal” and “crazy”
within my holonic human nature,
then my nature would be neither holonic nor human.
Yang’s “bad boy” universalist megalomania
and sociopathological ego-power
is a challenging competitive dimension
within our ego-centric,
anthropomorphic view
of evolution’s meaning;
while Yin’s ubiquitous “Other”-love as “Self,”
generosity to the extreme of unitarian self-exiting wishfulness,
is our more primal RNA holonic-cellular intelligence
of generosity’s ecological win-win scenario,
devoid of ego’s self-distinguishing,
and often dissonant,
and too loud,
and Left-brain dominant,
voice and language.

Kindness and unkindness are transactions between unequals.
Generosity and stinginess of empathy,
what eco-consciousness invites
as appropriately proportional response,
are transactions between mutual mentors
of gratitude, and lack thereof.

Differences between ego’s intended kindness
and eco’s well-practiced generosity
include a Taoist position that kindness and unkindness
are not found in nature,
although love,
as synergetic mutual gravity,
is the source of natural systems,
of bilateral life and time,
as opposed to the existence of…
well…
nothing; entropic unconsciousness.

Kindness suggests I am extending something to another
that this person has not earned,
does not rightfully and justly deserve
within the normal flow of time’s river.

Generosity is a mutually intended practice
of radical equanimity and empathy,
a grateful acceptance of our profound interdependence
of cause and effect,
stimulus and response.
Generosity is about absorbing and hopefully co-redeeming
our mutual assets and liabilities
to resolve an issue
whose outcome can be a mutual win
from a position of profoundly radical
coincidental/correlational
mutually mentored co-identity.
Trans-parentcy.

You have shown me who you are right now
so I may choose to respond
with who we could become right now
if we move from this position forward
within our positively synergetic, generous, practice
of mutual namaste.

There is nothing weaker than yin’s subconscious water
But none is superior to it in overcoming yang’s unconscious soul,

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Love’s Deadly Tidal Wave

The best of human nature is like water;
    Water benefits all things
    and does not compete with them.
It dwells in lowly places that all disdain–
    Wherein it comes near to Tao.
Laotse, Water

Imagine someone saying to God,
“I did this evil act just to test You!”
Rumi

Dear SuperEco Universal Intelligence,

I did this evil act just to test you.
We do evil to teach us justice
to discover individual and collective responsibility.
Evil develops from what we don’t do
that we could do instead,
that is within our power to do or not,
individually, AND collectively.

We do not evil to learn mercy
to uncover our individual AND collective accountability
toward mutual redemption.

Human nature’s good and evil knowledge
loves insight,
as Yang loves Yin,
not just justice and equivalence together,
but knowledge loves
our human love affair
with mutually coincident insight.

Yang’s knowledge looks outside
in and through
under and above
Earth’s forested flowing systems;
Yin’s insight looks within
back and forth across time’s enculturing memory
compassioned with Earth’s forested
and watered
and self-composting eco-logical systems.

Double-rooting Yang resolves Yin’s balancing regenerative eco-nutrients
as space resonates time’s 4-growing season rhythmic bicameral heartbeat.

Thump-thump,
Thump-thump.

We both do and do not evil
to mutually mentor fair balance of redemptive mercy,
to evolve our SuperEco-Intelligence
and proactive peaceful resolution,
love’s full inclusive resonance,
synergy’s revolution.

One – Two
Three – Four.
Winter – Spring
Summer – Fall
Advent – Birthing
Maturing – Harvest

We delivered this evil of Climatic Competitive Transmillennial-Actions
to Spring love’s cooperative Boddhisatva Occupation,
Earth’s ecologically harmonious habitat.

U – C,
A – G.

Con-Vexing
Con-Caving.
Co-Yanging,
Co-Yinning.
Breathing In Eco
Breathing Out Ego.
De-ducting,
In-ducing.
Dissonating Evil,
Resonating Good.

Co-habitating permaculturing regenesis.

Justice and Peace co-intelligently breathe
through each eternal HereNow Moment.

Breathe in good and evil’s justice.
Breathe out polyculturing peace.

Listen – Notice
Grace – TransAction.
Positive intentional life/death recycling trend,
Polynomial Optimization Orthopraxis

Metasystemic
life through death
ecotherapeutic regeneration,
surfing up and down,
breathing in and out,
beating in and out,
flowing back and forth,
emerging tidal Tao balance.

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Post-Millennial Parable

Once within our time,

SkyPrince and SunGod  talk,

as usual,

endlessly actually,

sending their radiant messages

out toward mutually gravitating receivers,

no Yins allowed.

SkyPrince wonders if SunGod might consider turning down his heat,

and wanders aloud as Sun burns enlightening minds,

“I’m worried about EarthGoddess,

she seems wilting

and actually melting on her polar caps.”

 

SunGod wishes this were funny,

or wrong,

just a mistake somehow,

maybe her time of this post-millennial period.

“Business As Usual,” echoes SunGod.

“My fire burns her waters into that amazing green-blue skin of hers.

Climate change pathology evolves like wind through your air-brained

SkyPrince head.

Business As Usual!”

 

Meanwhile,

WaterPrincess keeps her primally balancing distance

from SunGod’s overheating reign.

Still,

very still,

too still,

she melts within EarthGoddess.

And, with her Earth’s diverse species

until EarthGoddess’ soil becomes dry as dust.

Her cooperative economic and ecological soul

unravels dishumanic culture,

preparing for her transmutation

into Yin’s cold hibernating cave

of deep ecological nightmares,

galloping full horsepowered,

feverishly racing racism,

to prove we are chickens in our own messy soup

melting together and flying apart.

WaterPrincess weeps and seeps down in to Earth’s Core

overheating compost’s ecotherapeutic heart.

 

SunGod notices WaterPrincess,

too frequently absent from his divine comedy.

“She fails to feel my good humored rays

of wise warm radiance.

This feels more feminist Left than justly Righteous”

glooms SunGod’s manic calculating ways.

He glimpses dissonant doubt

where his regenerative organisms had been competing virgins

to cooperative sex,

much less mutually maximizing economics,

or crystal mirror echoes of ecologic myth and language.

SunGod weeps and wilts his PrincessWater.

 

Earth Goddess succumbs toward SunGod’s redeeming shaded fears.

Her revolutionary octaves fill with pregnant repurpose

and rehabilitating permacultural designs of herstory.

Her justice joys his peaceful recommitment

toward balancing polycultural praxis.

Family ecotherapy wins our enculturing history.

 

YangGod kisses EarthYinGoddess

as Left deductive embraces Right inductive primal balance

as human nature competes to cooperatively regenerate

what nature coincidately incarnates

to sing full octaved Earth Day Opera,

remembering future tales of SunLeft equals EarthRights,

as Earth resolves Sun’s pay-ray-forward gifts,

happily ever after now and here.

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Becoming Climate March

Ground of Being,
Climate of All Becoming
horizon’s now moment of Earth meets Sky,

EcoSpirit bound solar fire heating air
warming crystal ice floating water
soaking absorbent soul of soil
rusting fractal minerals

decomposing eviL-ing flesh
regenerating Live-ing organic systems,

open sets inform researching rhythms
percuss prehensile patterns
of octave colored sounds in songs
reconnecting mythic culture stories
reweaving co-grounded horizon long becoming,
Be longing Nondual-Now.

 

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RNA’s Square Dance

Earth’s soul, Her soil

Her fuel, Her Sun

Her blood, baptismal water

Her SkyGod fills each copulating breath

upon Her bicameral skin

of self-regenerating consciousness,

where super-eco logic

double-binds time’s evolving

now-present primal balance

EarthTribe Identity,

RNA square rooting strings

of reverse-hierarchical revolutioning spiral dynamics,

flow-balanced Prime Relationship Tao

of polyculturing rainbow maintenance.

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