PHOTO PROMPT -Brenda Cox This unit of Marvel’s finest heroes, Wanda Maximoff, Vision, Captain America, Winter Soldier, Shang-Chi, and Thor, were charged with protecting Paris from monsters. The Breach under the Pacific Ocean had been reopened with a 9.5-level earthquake, and Kaiju were streaming through. Their masters from the other dimension programmed them to disperse…
Month: August 2021
dVerse — Poetics — please see beyond the veil
Turkeytail Fungus Feel free to walk any woodland pathUntil you see tell-tale rounded capNever sure what specifics will be:Gilled, shelved, clung, lurking; short, tall, or wee.Indispensible kingdom cousins. Many times shy, they hide their planetary-matted panorama;Not brutes like fauna nor flashy like flora, fruits their brave flower.Quietly they act as finisher; then begins’ ways they…
Movies, Movies, Movies! #98 – August 24, 2021
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! It’s a kind of odd, eclectic mix this time. One of the films has a single digit spine # in the Criterion Collection, which is pretty amazing. Please let me know if you’ve seen any of them or if not, any pique your interest. The Nest (2020)…
dVerse — Quadrille 134 — Get on Board
Oh baby girl how I heart you,a timelessness transporter to grace divine. Wrinkles disappear, gravity lightens with your toothless smile. Pitted stone weeps, chest’s choke cranked, chugging on the joy line. Your coo delivers cool healing to all passengers.We’re at our destination. NOTE: The top image is not my granddaughter. Image link here. De…
senryu — insomnia
with drooping eyes I watch the moon go down sipping chamomile
Experiments with Asian Cooking
I’ve been buying packages of prepared sushi for awhile now that it isn’t easily accessible at the buffets of Asian restaurants. The cost is prohibitive, and frankly, the quality of the rice in it is terrible in its crumbly dryness. Earlier this month, the contemplation stage of making my own sushi kicked into the action…
Doodads — sunflowers and others
A poem from childhood that the asters reminded me of: A road like brown ribbonA sky that is blue,A forest of green with the sky peeping through.Asters deep purple,A grasshopper’s call,Today it is summer;Tomorrow is fall.—Anonymous
Tao Talk 