As November’s globe ticks its way to other orientations, long nights imbalance with ever-shortening light. Today, rain is forecast. Noon’s pregnant clouds occlude what scant light there is; and by five o’clock landscape is but blurry shadow as the temperature drops. Dusk, a dingy blank upon which nothing is writ even crows silent moon feels…
Month: November 2023
dVerse Poetics Nature’s Emissaries
How many would be smothered in their cribs to interrupt their trajectories? How many would be unburned at the stake? How many would be unhanging from trees? How many innocent souls would be unraped? Imagining a convoy of Chrononauts on the move Better than Ghostbusters, interrupting evil in its tracks; Confiscating kindling, ropes, and demonic…
dVerse — Prosery — Botched?
Snow would be the easy way out –Rita Dove, from “November for Beginners” Miranda’s rippled cleavage was pasted across banners of the e-zines that mattered. Just like the paparazzi to zoom in on a digital image and draw a red circle around it, with the headline, “Curdled Milk?” And why didn’t Mirage Photoshop her into…
#SLS — Deep Cuts — “Win” by David Bowie
“Me, I’m fresh on your pages” My choice of deep cut is, “Win” from David Bowie’s “Young American” album. There is something that pulls me in about the lyrics. I also love how David sings. Luther Vandross is one of the backup singers. It doesn’t get much better than this, peeps. Me, I hope that…
season calls (tanka)
Still, woodland clearinggeese rise, through millennia,when the season callsour steps quicken to beat duskour short breath puffs of white mist video shot at Blandford Nature Center last weekend, which inspired the tanka
Friday Favorite Feature 11 — Tree Hugger
Last weekend older son and I drove over to Grand Rapids and met up with younger son, his wife, and my grandbaby at Blandford Nature Center to walk the trails and to visit the farm part of the property to see the goats and chickens and to check out the large community garden the place…
POPO2023 Pic of All Postcards Received and Cento Poem from them
As of today, I have received a postcard from almost every one of the 30 people on my list. That’s the best return rate by far of the three years of participation. Add in some bonus cards from Kerfe and Jules, and look at these beauties! The variety and formats, as in other years, have…
Tao Talk 