Parts and Holes
..."You are a part of me
I do not yet know"
claims interdependent Valarie Kaur
And I wonder,
Is she speaking to me?
Or rhetorically asking any stranger
except me,
already known
because I feel ...
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Categories:
subsystem, earth, health, integrity, time,
Form: Political Verse
Cooperative Health and Climate Care
...Toby Hemenway,
in The Permaculture City,
defines four prime health development principles,
adapted as follows:
Highest Use
orders health maintenance tasks,
ecological activities,
and growth/...
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Categories:
subsystem, caregiving, earth, education, growth,
Form: Political Verse
Balancing Ecopolitical Systems
...Balanced systems normally calibrate
through double-negative dipolar feedback loops,
in which a change in one cause
incites an oppositional change in another effect,
so they balance each other out...
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Categories:
subsystem, games, growth, happiness, health,
Form: Political Verse
The Only Way To Go
...When I was a new seminarian
I had a favorite parish priest mentor
who told me the best way to die
is while having an ******.
I wasn't sure if I could ask
why he was so exclamatory sure
of his...
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Categories:
subsystem, blessing, death, health, humanity,
Form: Prose Poetry
Hay Seeds
...It’s noisy in here
The engines don’t shut down till midnight
That’s when the sweating begins
The deep human subsystem checks in for the morning
Orange lights permeate the dust that rains down
An...
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Categories:
subsystem, computer, horror,
Form: Free verse