VanGogh’s “Blue Wheatfield with Cypress” Blue ForensicsWhat acts cast this pall upon the bloody world?Weather sprite tricks or via faux-king twit I heard.Normal season’s passing or terminal affliction?A healthy ecosystemic or sick viral acquisition?Which infusive spilled fluid is chosen, preferable?Meltstreams for crops or gunsiphons unutterable?Bright skyball trajectoring sun or nuclear missile?Task: plant seed cellpacks or…
FFF 70 — Amalgam by Sculptor, Nick Cave, at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
Nick Cave’s 26-foot tall bronze sculpture, Amalgam (Origin), has landed a home at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan. James Prinz © Nick Cave. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery; John Edmonds/Jack Shainman Gallery, New York Happy Friday Everyone! Nick Cave’s magnificent sculpture has been installed at Meijer Gardens since…
WMM 2026 Day 6 — Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-47)
Portrait of Fanny Hensel, 1842.Artist: Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1800–1882) Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn (b. 11/14/1805 – d. 5/14/1847) was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era, later known as Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy and as Fanny Hensel. Her compositions number over 450, and include a string quartet, a piano trio, a piano quartet, an orchestral overture, four cantatas, more than 125 pieces for…
WMM 2026 Day 5 — Wendy Waldman
Wendy Waldman, image from Wendy’s website from wiki:Wendy Waldman (nee Wendy Steiner) (b. 11/29/50) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.Waldman grew up in the Los Angeles area and was raised in a musical environment. Her father, Fred Steiner, was a composer who wrote the theme music for Perry Mason and The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show; her mother was a…
#FF — Oops
PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot Oops Why here? Isn’t her clemency enough? She steps from a gold-plated Hummer, garbed in royal blue Versace and Wang glitter pumps. Two escorts in Armani walk her over. She’s usually wearing a doll grin. Today she looks almost scared; her wrinkles are tight. We’re seated in the tent bistro,…
WMM 2026 Day 4 — Peggy Lee
Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images link takes you to a huge amount of info on Peggy Lee and has other pictures there Norma Deloris Egstrom (b. 5/26/1920 – d. 1/21/2002) known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, and actress whose career spanned seven decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio…
dVerse Tuesday Poetics — Winter’s Leftovers
Winter’s Leftoverssnow bones are resting wet, flat straw fieldsa million empty sunflower shells for crowsto pick tidbits fromhungry blue jays swarm amidst toothpick skies to pokefrozen lake still still no wind to hold breath(e) outchainsaw in the distance hot rooibos warms, eases cold knucklesbook dust dusty poemsGeorge Saunders’ Vigil too shortgrey cotton muffles, occludesrainbow colors…
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