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With thanks to my sister, Kerry.

Sacramental Ecology

Communion
reversed
grows feelings of narcissistic isolation.

Isolation
reversed
invites empowering cooperation.

Cooperation
reversed
requires competitive capitalization.

Capitalism
begets
Win/Lose strategic
Business as bottom economic line
Usual.

BusinessAsUsual
begets
monocultural monopolistic fantasies.

Monopoly Win fantasies
beget
monotheistic loyalty games
speaking patriotism
whispering worship.

Monotheistic loyalty
begets
isolation.

Isolation
reversed
invites active communion,
a verb
sacredly familiar
as secular cooperation

Cooperation
co-arising
polypaths toward WinWin Futures,
economically secular
and politically sacred
communion
abhors mere capital
monotheistic underinvestment.

Monotheistic isolation
reversed
grows feelings of polyphonic communion,
resilient ecology,
resonant theology.

The silence of sacred trees branching
and the secular sounds of trees shedding branches
nearby
is not yet overhead,
nor peacefully overheard.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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