Stagger home through early drizzle Sprite pizzle! Minute downpour fashions a crust Hard-packed dust. ”Jonesin’ for soak,” cry our parched plants Deadly dance. Why can’t showers show us balance? Flood one hemi, deny other Land-based water life forms brothers Sprite pizzle!, Hard-pack dusted, deadly dance. top image link Laura is today’s host at dVerse’ Meet…
Month: August 2023
Tanka Tuesday 332 — Larks Rise
image link larks rise, exultation of feathers harmonize, celestial and wise ready souls hear blooming over grasslands, larks fan, muted blossoms, empty, weightless brahmans leading souls home larks roost in heaven’s tree beyond thick cotton clouds that hide mist peak of mount when day is done Abhanga form Colleen Chesebro is the host of Tanka…
#FF — Prowess
PHOTO PROMPT © Alicia Jamtaas Hugh’s lair is fully equipped to impress his lovers, from the twinkle lights to the slate fireplace, from the soft Italian leather to the sequoia slab table. Hugh’s suggested hunting prowess manifests in the mounted moose skull. He meets them at networking conferences in the city, flirts until five, then…
dVerse — Poetics — Trouble in paradise
Sitting here, still contemplating whether I should use the bottle of poison that I bought to kill the poison ivy that is slowly, inexorably, creeping up the siding of the house, into the flower beds, and slinking towards the back slider. I know that the poison will kill the plants. I also know, after, it…
Book Review: _End of the World House_, by Adrienne Celt
_End of the World House_ is the third novel I’ve read by Adrienne Celt. The first was, _Invitation to a Bonfire_ which is set in the 1920’s about a young Russian refugee in America. The second, _The Daughters_, is about an opera singer trying to extricate herself from a family curse, I wasn’t sure what…
dVerse Q181 — Q x 2
Tall walls and soundproofed ceilings;I wonder why art is caged in hushed,conditioned, dustless air, whether three hundred or a single year old.I sidle and snake my way, along and around Matisse’ traveling exhibit. Hesure knows how to make color pop. When I think pop, I think: Badfinger;a startling punch;…goes the weasel;green, red, and yellow soda;bubble…
The Unicorn Challenge — Careful
© Doug Jacquier Marcia continued rubbing her right buttock while waiting for the receipt and to make a follow-up appointment with the receptionist at the clinic. Her chart, under a pseudonym, was growing. She was too embarrassed to seek out testing and treatment from Dr. Bane, her and her husband, Charles’, primary care physician. Instead,…
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