Clara B. Jones


Constant Context
 
for Miguel Luke Jones

“Consciousness is a disease.” Miguel de Unamuno

Red male showed you how to leap from place to place, 
9 years at a time, from College Avenue to Haifa to Chicago, 
from Montclair to Alaska, landing on your feet as he landed 
while moving with his group from Andira to Ficus 
near Corobici’s rapids Southwest of Arenal 
before Carl Sagan taught you that Pluto was the 9th planet, 
your solar system a matrix of dreams, 
some realized, some deferred by chance or by necessity, 
Jacque Monod’s mantra to Philosophy and to Science 
before you found your way to Ecuador and the Amazon 
now threatened by modern predators and parasites—  
technology immune to the Sápara and to the Kichwa 
whose language was known to the Incas 
before you learned Navajo policy—legacy to their nation’s future 
as East Hill had been to yours. 
If the present remains the past though plus ça change, 
then Ralph Nader was a link to Richard Wolff 
while Dan Carlin lent constant context. 
Nine years preparing for a lifetime of choices—costs-benefits, nature-nurture—  
an arc bending toward your control. 
You, the specific, others, the general, 
always conscious of playing a role.

Clara B. Jones is a Knowledge Worker practicing in Silver Spring, MD, USA.

 
 

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