PHOTO PROMPT © Alicia Jamtaas She broke off a stem of herself and stowed it away on the ship before it left Yautja Prime. She’d learned about secret hunting trips by the elite on a planet described as lush, green, and full of game. The rumbling landing gear activated her from dormancy and she slipped…
Month: February 2021
dVerse — Poetics 439 — Grace with Soul
Light micrographs of Cladosporium sphaerospermum NRRL 8131 Black tunes will save the world.You heard right. Melanin singsgospel waves attuned to death,and twists them to sweet life.Can I get an amen? Amen! Cladosporium sphaerospermum is a fungi that employs radiosynthesis. It eats radiation, where in the process the melanin in its body converts…
2021 MOVIE DRAFT- ROUND 3 PICK 9- MSJADELI SELECTS- THE PROPOSITION [2005] — slicethelife
Round 3, Pick 9, February 9, 2021 “The Proposition” [2005] Genre: (Australian) Western We are white men, Sir, not beasts. Oh, he sits up there in those melancholy hills; some say he sleeps in caves like a beast, slumbers deep like the Kraken. The Blacks say that he is a spirit. The Troopers will never […]…
Movies, Movies, Movies! #71 – February 9, 2021
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! Today I’m also doing a detailed review of “The Proposition,” for Hanspostcard’s Movie Draft which will be posted separately so be looking for it. Irresistible (2020) Starring: Steve Carrell, Rose Byrne, Chris Cooper, Brent Sexton, Will Sasso, C.J. Wilson, Kevin Maier, Tom Key, Charles Green, Alan Aisenberg,…
dVerse — Quadrille 121 — Winter’s Embrace
woodcut image, “Winter Sleep,” by Yumi Kawaguchi, from DogwoodStudioAlaska Snow embraces treeswho embrace winter aswinter embraces land. Land sleeps, a caveof cold-warm that cradles curled furred dreamers,cryo’ed reptiles, seeds. All seeds sleep. Some feed hearty plumed and scurried, pulsing with life despite inert season.Many wake to Spring bloom. [44 words] Merril is today’s…
The Sunday Muse 146 — Mother’s Emissary
“Natural Woman” Digital Collage Art “Covid Creations” by Susie Clevenger Coy on a textured background she stands out in earthed muslin.Tansy & wild lily’s fragrant lips partas feathered fans swarm to her.Songs as constellations twirlwarm breeze in her tresses.Like Jesus before her, she’sMother’s emissary, as he wasconscripted to be his Father’s. Unlike him, will she…
The Miracle of Snow
I look out of the window as the sun makes the blanket of snow over all sparkle and am filled with wonder. We take snow for granted but as I look at the zillions of unique snowflakes that casually land and rest together, I shouldn’t. Whenever I’m feeling drained and numbed of joy, I need…
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