Awhile back I posted a Ryan Adams and The Cardinals song that I like. It wasn’t long before I was informed that Ryan Adams has a reputation as an abuser of females. Yesterday I read that Marilyn Manson’s reign has ended. Further investigation showed that he has mentally and physically tortured his partners and others…
Month: February 2021
The Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Becomes Law, by Marie Braun — Rise Up Times
“The U.S., the only nation to ever use nuclear weapons, should take the lead in convening talks with the other eight nuclear nations with the goal of working toward the elimination of these horrendous weapons and becoming signatories of the new landmark Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.” The Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Becomes Law,…
dVerse — MTB — A moss-covered path
Padding spongy moss, I inhale humus air to where our love playedA tunePine canopy dapples flicker as old movies play. Warbler’s songLifts me.Wait, am I dreaming or is that your laughter I hear? My breath isTethered,I see you and she, lazily languishing, your eyes twinkling into hers.Clingingillusions de-clutter; I wish you well as I turn…
#FF — First Domino
PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson Ada, Bonnie, Christy, Donna, Eileen, Francina, and Ginette grew up together in St. Ignace. Their mothers stayed home and made pasties. Their fathers worked as woodsmen, railroad men, and on the ships of Lake Michigan. They married young and followed their parents’ footsteps. They canned food in autumn, made quilts…
dVerse–Poetics — Sentences of Night
I am thy fool in the morning, thou art my slave in the night. – from The Paradox, by Paul Dunbar Bladder nudges release, now intermission, cuing curtain’s whoosh, open into bright. Duty calls, urgent, while captive on reprieve holds tight to the sentences of night. Soon blurry-eyed scrabble on the bedside pad, bits weave…
Movies, Movies, Movies! #73 – February 23, 2021
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! I have a good batch for you this week. Diner (1982) Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Tim Daly, Ellen Barkin, Paul Reiser, Kathryn Dowling, Michael Tucker, Jessica James, Colette Blonigan, and many more.Director: Barry LevinsonGenres: comedy, dramaSynopsis: Set in 1959 Baltimore, the story…
New Reviews (2/2): Voices (In The Trash)
Originally posted on Frank Prem Poetry:
Receiving the first review for a newly minted book is an edgy event. Anticipation and anxiety all mixed together. I am delighted (and a little relieved) to welcome the first review of my newest release – Voices (In The Trash) by Li (from Tao Talk). I was delighted to…
Tao Talk 