Rev. Gerald Dillenbeck Poet Parallelismus Membrorum

Gardening Happy Health

My round white anti-depressants
were trying their faithful best
to listen to my ecofeminist 
wise old woman
gardening neighbor,
pulling aggressive weeds

Sharing with me
her morning meditation reflection
immediately after entering dawning eyes
and before exiting her dreamy
comforting 
fertile bed

Her opening 
and excavating self-invitation
to choose body health nutrition
and mind happiness nurturing
which are snugly associated
for her
like peas and carrots
remembering well-versed voice
intention

But,
not so much for me,
now able to choose health
almost every dawning day
and dusky night
but still struggling
for post-traumatic omnipotence
to thrive toward happiness
by empowered choice,
even if not enlightened voice
articulating all the many thankful ways
remembering well-cultivated rejoice.

What my gardening neighbor
and I speak of
feels like my dull 
and darkly present 
spatial stuck unchanging place

Which she 
unlike me
can also remember
as having evolved through time
from current EarthTribe regenerating days
becoming nurturing seasons
within each annual surviving incarnation

Reversing on back toward warm 
welcoming first dawn light's
empowering MotherEarth's
thriving 
flowing
flowering invitation
to each day's rebirth.

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