Aberrant yarns*

1.
Nature --
in the pages of history
man’s greatest friend
man's greatest foe.

To survive, our putative mandate has been
to study and shape and harvest Nature --
for the sake of all men at all times.

“From each according to one’s talents
to each initially according to one’s labours
to each ideally according to one’s needs.”

3.
In fact our minds have largely been dulled
by a persistent paradigm of alienation –
about the nature of Nature and the nature of man
about the fruits of Nature and the fruits of man’s labour.

Our social nature has grown aberrant
long hostage to the cultural lies
of the court's weavers of sand.

4.
We have to write our own history
of Nature and man.





*Chapter 5, Fractured Memories

In sum*

1.
We had read, in sum:

"We are part of a whole--
the whole being Nature
the part being Man.
And we're Nature's putative avant-garde."

2.
Yet -- men have caused both
wealth and privation
freedom and repression
social order and anarchy.

Men have also caused
famine and plenty
dams and drought
both certitude and doubt.

War and peace.

3.
The most evolved part of Nature?

We needed to be reminded occasionally,
of the protracted process of change--
among men, as in Nature.

Meanwhile, we continue to wash our hands
with the blood of our brothers and sisters.






*Chapter 1, Fractured Memories