A Year Ago
About a year ago,
as the COVID pandemic
seemed to subside,
then swell,
happily ebb
and yet impatiently flow
Again,
about a year ago
I was noticing cold autumn nights
bringing first frost
to my metal windowframes
and skeletal post-surgery-tired back
and neglected aging heart.
Outside corner unit 315
my view to the south
of brownfield industrial waste
not salvaged back quite to alive
when converting this condo place
to residential co-invested space.
Outside all our interior doors,
a CommonsGrace ignored
for at least a decade of degeneration
now accelerating divestment
by investors seeking regeneration
from short-term rental profits
And also by resident owners
who could not ascertain
that others felt shamed
by a stained
and torn carpet,
elevators that sometimes worked,
cracked and vaporously blind windows,
undressed plastic curtains
dilapidated doors,
impending rot
and gloom
and unimpressed financial doom.
Now
a year later
our parking place
more curiously awaits demolition,
to become hauled away
dismissed
disposed of,
lacking wu-wei sway,
further disgraced
to be replaced
refaced
in some future highway
graveled trace.
A year later
our communication grace
is in transition
from feeling alone
victimized by our own hired hands
and by our Commons Governor demands
indulging an economy of capital scarcity,
patriarchal political remands
of executive privilege,
an implied theology
of StraightWhiteMale
monotheistic exceptionalism,
as if godly wisdom comes down
only from an enlightened professional high
sacred plan,
and not from within
our ecofeminist administrators
teachers
mothers
grandmothers
sisters
at least as swell
and marvelously spanned
Co-invested in cooperative
win/win resolutions,
ecologically reconnecting EarthCare constitutions,
health and safety non-prostitutions,
Yang strong and Yintegral flow
of bicamerally balancing institutions,
mindbodies for longterm healthy democracy,
transparent bilateral trust
an unmitigated win/win must
Nonviolent communicators
cooperatively planning
and priority budgeting
to heal our side-by-side loneliness
by reconnecting cooperative care
for EarthTribe Wisdom:
a formerly healthy
polyculturally wealthy
sacred planet,
a multiculturally inviting property
for growing edible and ornamental plants
and health-minded wealth-embodied people,
enlightened LeftBrain strong and vital
empowering RightBrain co-empathic flow
of root
and gut
and sacred peak experience feelings
revitalized resilience
While planning not just to survive
our individual autonomous lives
but also to thrive
through EarthCare loves
for at least another 7-Regenerations
of healthier healing LeftBrain
ecological co-relations
and safer sacred RightBrain
more polytheistic
EarthMatriarchal
co-empathic re-connections.
Our individual victim histories
of patriarchal-capital values
now repurposed
to help heal our co-invested residential hues
of PolyCultural Communion,
rejoining planet Earth's great transitioning
climate of health and re-contenting enterprise
good news
Rather than hiding in self-judging shame
and Othering blame
for moving in
to unhealthy and unsafe
historic property demise
and feeling sad consumer
used.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2022
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