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Revolving Rivers

In backyards of my history lies a tidal river of ebb and flow revolutions. These revolutions are normally no-news evolutions back up toward headwaters of crisis and opportunity, diastatic and polyphonic purest capital boundary roots for future's river flow investment out-flowing down from Earth's absorbing rain back through tributaries toward saltwater seas of creolizing cultures, estuary bounded vulnerable fertile forests in deep blue lagoons, anthro-roots of historic habitation preference. Preference for normal downstream flow of peaceful evolution following wiser councils. Uncivil and international strivings paddle more violently upstream merely to tread equivalent water, stuck in midway-revolutioning ambivalence about criminal necessities of both WinLose capital gives and takes of violence about our historic civil rights to simply revolve around to float WinWin downstream with time to sing and dance together more harmoniously heading for Earth's shared polyculture forest Paradise of globally non-violent, and well-fed, democracy. Democracy has swung both ways across my USA lifetime. Sometimes revolutionary fighting toward purity ideals of heavenly headwaters, inspired by conserving dreams of where and when and how and why our river of democratic loving leisure started, in austere glacial yet matriarchal mountains of alpine womb regenerativity, bright and thin-aired climates yet already trickling with deep rich promise as this river's economy tumbles down both healthy wealth and pathological abuse of toxically competing poverties among nutrition's spiritually diverse dynamics. Dynamics of feeding and bleeding rivers feel not yet ecotherapeutically known, yet ecologically and psychologically and even democratically and global multiculturally felt and already heard as absence of dissonant ecopolitical waters. No regenerate river can bleed investments downstream toward political enculturing forests except what has been co-invested fed-in upstream evolving cooperative nurturing streams flowing economically healthy downstream. Downstream revolutions are caused by history's upstream co-invested evolutions. Evolution along this democratizing river history prefers to AnthroParadise arrive within Earth's blue lagoon fullness, emerging from headwaters of capital investment cooperatively flowing down and out to become caught where most needed by future generations longing for eternal peace, yet finding daily violence in nationalistic supremacist, often patriarchal, voices. Voices violating tidal rivers silence have not yet listened to learn deepy etched peaceful river revolutions. When rivers are yet young and steep and still bedrock stoned with our own internal needy cultures, we overfeed gravity's urgent pull down and out into salty seasons of confusing chaotic surge and surf. Surfing revolutions of peaceful tidal rivers are sweetest in deep creolizing histories of matriarchal family and tribal peace-keeping cooperative revolutions, slow-evolving rich soil striation, river double-boundaries by WinWin consensus. WinWin consensual tidal rivers flow back to re-invest in capital producing austerity of ego-eco concentric flowing purpose, to conjoin again back down and out creating forested economic views and deep creolizing dreams of slow rhythms rich blues dancing in and out, up and down, singing democracy back and forth, breathing in history's peaceful evolutions with acrid burning and burying violent revolutions to breathe downstream and out peace intending rivers co-revolutioning awareness, bleeding ebb of matriarchal opportunity and feeding flow of patriarchal crisis.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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