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Eutrophication Of Golden Pond

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February 28th, 1968
marked the date
Boyce Brandon Harris 
(my octogenarian
widower father) 
purchased small
tract of land

Pooh would Winnie  
constituting shadowed sliver 
once hailing, hall
marking, harkening, 

glorious vast
"Glen Elm" estate,
which circa
1910 encompassed
a hundred plus
acres of woodland
(including a pond frequented 
by migrating
Canadian Geese)

eventually zoned
for commercial,
industrial, and
residential development
(all in the name
of productive land use)

particularly put into motion 
courtesy Donald J. Neilson,
who transformed
expansive woodland
rivaling shutterfly 
sprouting like mush
rooms towed stools

booming explosively
after ample precipitation 
little houses
on the hillside
little houses
made of  ticky tacky...
popped up overnight 

transforming landscape
displacing flora
and fauna with
vinyl city
(minus spit of property
papa bought)
manicured bumped
uglies with wild wisp

reduced pristine
niche leftover
jot haven
squawking disoriented
geese instincts
thwarted, where
drained wetlands
a Arcadian
past suburbanization

overlaying (palimpsest
like) rural setting
trademark bucolic
print Currier And Ives  
stock in trade
signature prints
landscape sparse
human population
  
country aire sprinkled
with family farms
fresh dairy,
produce, vegetables 
butchered animals
free ranging 
without synthetic injections

nostalgia faintly
recreated here
Highland Manor Apartments
Schwenksville,
Pennsylvania
a slip of country revered

against a Paul Ling
urbanization
nothing appears familiar
retracing roadways, 
now major highways
frequent moments
breeds alienation 
familiar ground confusing,
frightening, and perplexing. 

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