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Recorded Reading (2:26): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/x3i0aut34bveu8ybx6bfh/Around-Home.m4a?rlkey=vj59p7163yjgs1grjcg18fyim&dl=0

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If we were to deliberately choose the kind of home which would be hardest to support, least stable, least well lit and most inefficient and expensive to heat ~ it would be the square wooden boxes we presently build.

The poet lived in a hard sided teepee through one typically severe Washington State winter. With zero insulation on its plywood siding, the place stayed so warm after smooring its woodstove in the morning that she could be gone all day long ~ and still strip comfortably right to the skin after reenetry and before ever touching that stove.

Quonset huts and dome homes are still more efficient than these.

The reader has become used by now to spotting the traces of Earth’s future fifth dimensional thinking which have manifested in the third, sometimes very anciently ~ in this case, the round houses of both African and American Native tradition.

Infant technologies exist already among us now which allow us literally to grow a home in any shape of our choosing, using specialized panels of mushroom mycelium, in about two days.

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Around Home

We human beings haven’t always made
Our halls and homes rectangular or square
Indeed, when on arriving first so bade
“Primitive” helpers almost anywhere

Upon the ground of Mother Africa
(Where they remember more than we’ve forgot),
They begged us to revise our formula —
From my experience, I blame them not

All energies distribute well within
Dwellings which pleasantly circular are,
Lit sweetly from each early morn’s begin
Till the appearance of that first faint star

Warmth, physical and interpersonal,
The outer world’s disharmonies annul

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