a woman in labor before gathered two support clumps — one hovering, warm, within her reach; one outside, passing the whisky she has one ninja love grain; our text message dings ring hollow Image info: A nurse holds a newborn baby wearing a face shield in an effort to halt the spread…
Month: April 2021
Because it’s important to share: Bone Rooms
Measuring human skulls in physical anthropology (SIA Acc. 12-492 – United States National Museum. Division of Graphic Arts. Section of Photography, Photographic Collection, 1933, Smithsonian Institution Archives) You know how sometimes you randomly come across information that evokes such a visceral response that you are compelled to share the information with others? Going through…
A2Z 2021 Jethro Tull Songs Day 13 Mother Goose from Aqualung (1971)
Wikipedia says: The lyrics are a pastiche (a work of visual art, literature, theater, or music that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists. Unlike parody, pastiche celebrates, rather than mocks, the work it imitates.) of surreal figures based on images that Ian Anderson wrote with the same…
#FF — 2100 A.D. = 1 VR
PHOTO PROMPT © Anne Higa Wheezing-gasped real time numerically marked by the birth and death of a deity was over. New microscopic gods were capricious. Similar to how antibiotics against bacteria became ineffective with over-use, viral vaccinations became impotent against super-morphing coiled beasties. We were forced to go virtual to continue… Humans now live in…
Movies, Movies, Movies! #80 – April 13, 2021 (a day late. plus…)
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! Sorry this is a whole day late, and even sorrier that there are no films that were reviewed this week. I’ve been caught up in yard work, seedling planting and monitoring, and a mesmerizing series now on Netflix called, “The Sinner.” Each of the 3 seasons are…
dVerse — Poetics — The Migration Habits of Snow Geese
When at last an ache of joint-swelling freeze crosses the line,I shall fly as the snow goose, to warm, moist watery climesthen bow my weary head in grizzled grey grace to the sun.I’ll waddle muck, then float, weightless on duckweed ponds.I’ll enjoy each still dawn and sunset with other snowbirds,creaks drowned with soothing menageries’ rise…
A2Z 2021 Jethro Tull Songs Day 11 King Henry’s Madrigal (from Stormwatch) (1979)
Stormwatch is the twelfth studio album by the progressive rock group Jethro Tull, released September 1979. It is considered the last in the trilogy of folk-rock albums by Jethro Tull with Songs from the Wood (1977) and Heavy Horses (1978) being the other two. Among other subjects, the album touches heavily on the problems…
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