The Hidden Pleasures of Permaculture in the Holy City of . . .

“HolyCity of the SweetWaterSeas” is a Beat poet way of describing Milwaukee. For social activist/professional roofer/part-time poet Jim Godsil, Milwaukee is a Promised Land of potential, a shining city on the bluffs above Lake Michigan. In his latest chapbook he dreams of the once-reviled Milwaukee transforming into a “city of city farms and gardens, And neighborhood co-ops, Of a Central Park/With a great river in the middle, A cleansing river/With cleansing shores.”