“Thousands of circular homes are surviving hurricanes across the US.” ~ The Good News Network

This poet has lived in two circular homes over the course of her life ~ a tiny geodesic dome, and a hard sided teepee.

Both of these structures existed in Washington State, and she lived in them during the winter.

She found ~ as ancient peoples from Africa to the Americas have been trying to tell us, literally for centuries ~ that efficiency of energy use inside one of these structures was so superior to those of a typical commercial box that, inside their simple plywood surfaces no insulation whatsoever was required.

Indeed, she was able to smoor her woodfire at the beginning of a workday, returning in the evening to an interior still so warm that she could strip to the skin comfortably before ever touching that fire.

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Recorded Reading (2:18): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dhlcx2skjy6oxj1m0j1ae/Around-Home.mp3?rlkey=cggyeukulyiino64nlyn7r9o0&dl=0

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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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This poet presently lives at a fraction of her nation’s poverty level.

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