Braiding Dawn With Eve
In "Braiding Sweetgrass"
Robin Wall Kimmerer
favorably contrasts Skywoman's creation story
with Eve's less abundant vocation.
In our shared Right hemisphere,
Skywoman "created a garden
for the wellbeing of all."
While in and out of the more extractive Left hemisphere,
Eve was banished from her forest garden
"and the gates clanged shut behind her."
To live as fully as possible,
Eve must subdue the wildness
"into which she was cast."
Meanwhile,
Skywoman remains an active matriarchal agent
of this casting and forecasting
wildness.
This feels fine to me as it is.
Yet I can also recognize Skywoman
as RightBrain Dawn
migrating through these four languaged millennia
to re-emerge this Eve of Earth's climate pathologies
re-approaching reweaving gates bilaterally opening
with no more need for violent slamming shut
gates designed for polypathic bilateral nudging,
Dawn through Eve,
forward through back again,
surfing Left to Right
nondual co-arising.
In my version
of this Skywoman Dawn meets Eve,
Dawn says to Eve
"Sister, you got the short end of the stick..."
while Eve hears and dreams therapeutic response,
resonant resolutions
to lead with longer and deeper
and wider more inclusive nutritious carrots
this seasoning of Earth's dualdark bicameral health
re-emerging
revolving
revolutioning
braiding dawn then eve
toward dawn's DNA again.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2017
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