“Sugar Mountain,” by Neil Young

Image link Note: If you click on the image link above, it will take you to a very interesting post about Neil Young’s folksinger demos from 1964-1967, where Sugar Mountain is one of them. I think the first time I heard this was on pandora radio. It was love at first listen. Of course I…

Doodads — photos and poems

More pics from this week.  The rain has brought out the fungi.  The bike trails are lovely at this time of year.  The pear tree is both a tease and a traitor. moon falls from the sky, lands in the tall grass, and cracks — patient, she rises, healed Ms. Pac Man’s hunting easier to…

dVerse — Zejel Form — Kousa Christmas

Kousa Christmas in SeptemberMatte red gummies look like embersLess known Asian cherry member Dogwood dangles first green nuggetsPseudo acorn uncapped clustersPromised nuts for squirrel gulletsThen it goes on fruitian bender Squeeze them like a squishy marbleSuck their guts and taste the marvelof this precious juicy parcel But spit out pits at their center   Notes:♦While…

New Music Review — “Pressure Machine,” by The Killers

The Killers — image link that also takes you to a review of the album by Georgia Howlett (which I haven’t read yet) For awhile now, when searching for new DVDs at the library I plug the year into the keyword and also into the year’s from and to fields. It works so well to…

#FF — The Ultimate AI

PHOTO PROMPT© Liz Young Model XLR7000 promised to be the ultimate AI. Marty, mesmerized by youtube promotional videos, secured a second mortgage on her house. She drank a shot of tequila the day the email arrived confirming she would be one of the first thousand customers to receive a unit in January. Affectionately known as…

dVerse Poetics — Memories of Dad

After my folks divorced, my mom and us kids moved away. The new house was smaller, but brighter. The old, quiet, mostly childless neighborhood switched to one full of children for my brothers and I to play with. running in sunlight I shoot and make the basket my new best friend cheers Weekends with my…