Traversing the HexagramsHis grizzled, stooped form wheezesfrom the back porch, pleading.The small girl looks, still in sandbox,from across the yard, refusing.She nods, beaten in the kitchen.Uncle, brother, and a game friend goto pound him and his mouthy brother;her stuff in the bed of rusty truck.Pale, weak, she signs the waiversthat will excise cursed rotten pear,symbol…
Month: September 2024
POPO2024 Day 18
2 little kittens8 little mittensor is it4 little mittens and4 little boots?regardless,8 little feetpad, run, and jump;2 furry bodiesstretch and curl;4 little eyesexotic and watching;fuzzy bundlesplaying, then sleeping,dreaming
POPO2024 Day 17
It’s not about what,It’s about how.It’s always been about how.Sure, what is the goal, butwithout the finesse of how,what is is but a figmentthat will not materialize.It applies to art perhapsmost of all. Consider palettesof roygbiv, alphabet of 26.
Looking for Volunteers at Polling Places in Six States (from Turtle Talk)
Wisconsin, Montana, Nevada, N Dakota, S Dakota, New Mexico
dVerse – Q208 (2nd one) — Succumbed
SuccumbedVelvet cape whooshes, silk soft in shadowsAs evening’s cricket choir abruptly codas.Moon slithers, ambivalent, behind clouds.Pulse of innocence quickens with her steps.Irresistible aroma of sweat and fear goads myRavenous appetite, compels my predation.Evermore I succumb to soul-stealing ways. Dora is today’s host for dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. Vampire is the word to use for the quadrille…
dVerse — Q208 — By Pale Screen Light
By Pale Screen LightIn days of oldfrom neck was drained,sucked from punctures,to pale, hungry undeath.In flush refrain, nowfantasy, foddered myth.Yet modern vampires still exist.We stare into their pixelled eyes, minds jammedthrough cable and wifi,keyboarding evermore into drooling golems. Image link Dora is today’s host for dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. In celebration of Dora’s daughter’s novel being…
POPO2024 Day 16
We’ve had John Steuart Curry’s“Tornado Over Kansas”in our museum since 1935.The current exhibit brings hisworks in from across the U.S.Walking through it, thenresearching him at home,I see immortal Americana.From farm boy to paintingpolitical murals in the KSState Capitol Building, hisdust gleams with gold.
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