East Hill (Poem by Clara B. Jones)

East Hill

George Stubbs designs elite architecture,

drawing analytically in a moral mode while

Stonehenge memorializes Druid rituals like

landscape simplification and “top-down”

control...education and the digital field...

Refugees flee conflict zones and

hackers stream live on TV though bots

spread online when pixel images are

sold for profit. 3-D computer feeds

and lab studies fail to measure synth

awareness but William Irons proved that

matriarchy is unstable...personality traits...

Diversity-dependent scale is complex

if fundamental social units follow

Hamilton's Rule since network theory

leads to chaos through high-tolerance

inbreeding caused by drift. Searching

for general laws is a matter of modeling

humans as insects if you have typical

responses to animals in soil-disturbance regimes.

Hacienda La Pacifica (Poem by Clara B. Jones)

Hacienda La Pacifica

for Vreni Hagnauer

You gender ecosystems and race exotic pets to

save wilderness in Canas where poachers wild

monkeys or that is how it seems to me...stay

away from replicants...Troy Day is your role

model since math is your strongest subject and

landscapes are rugged when life is not what you

thought it would be...whose fault is it when

aggressive advertising is permitted by law if you

order Chinese take-out in San Jose before boarding

the bus to Alajuela...you become more attractive

as you age but are not confused by the contradictions

of men or celebrations of wealth along class lines...

internet-deployed networks...you have a GATA4

mutation allowing you to hear in the ultrasonic range

and to share codes with bats roosting in strangler

figs while tapirs roam dry forest in rainy season

and clines promote species scaling...stress gradient...

trophic cascades alter group-level thinking and you

are now a matrón with 2,000 campesinos under 

your watch...repression of selfishness in human transactions.