November’s Hourglasses donning hoody and quilted vest, she makes her way out to the mailbox. a pale, weak sun washes cold; no relief from wind, no warmth found between junk mail. in disappointment she turns. her steps scuff gravel gray path of the forgotten across the globe, on her deathbed, a woman mourns there’s no…
Author: Lisa or Li
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#FF — The Deadline Games
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Cut rock and cement walls dominate, where blue sky feels almost like an afterthought. It’s a place that reason says is uninhabitable for humans – a perfect place for The Games. Those who haven’t paid Lifetax by deadline are vaporized en mass each midnight. National lotteries choose contestants from those…
dVerse — Poetics — Letters of Love
Barb and Rod when grey dulls life’s gleammind wandering back to bleaknessyour face, grace, returnsyou turn, I follow your lightblack numbness again vanquished Punam is today’s host of dVerse’ Poetics. Punam says:I think, we all have many, maybe hundreds, of unsent and unwritten letters inside us. So let’s write letters today. Write to…
prayers for our best (freeverse)
image link We’re at our best at our worst. Maybe it will take scorched earth before we’ll realize we’ve gone too far. Methodical hollowing of all aspects of life-giving nature, replacing with seeping uncleanable toxins into every crevice hasn’t quite gotten us to the worst. Textured, contextual, mutual hatred followed by sulphurous belching bouts of…
Doodads — odds and ends pictures (with update on ginkgo fruit)
These are pics that there aren’t enough of to do a whole theme post so will post them together here. This is a dinner I made from a recipe card from Hello Fresh for a second time. Roasted carrots, fried haddock with a coconut milk/chili cream sauce, topped with pineapple and scallions over rice. It…
Tidbits in Hackley Library
image link (the rest of the pics in this post are mine) Thursday, after lunch and visiting the art museum, we walked next door to Hackley Library. Hackley Library is one of the oldest buildings in town (1890.) Like the art museum, it was built by funds donated by lumber baron, Charles Hackley. Hackley funded…
#SLS — Going Unplugged — “Wild Horses,” by The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones 1971 There are so many good acoustic songs out there but I have to wonder how they cross the line, into rock, and still be acoustic, as rock music almost seems to imply the addition of electric guitars. I do think this one can be called rock music. As I read the…
Tao-Talk 