Copperhead snake Mid-morning, a-stupored, I walked to the patio sipping hot cuppajoe in fuzzy bunny slippers. Plopping down in a wrought iron chair, I spied a copper snake wound round umbrella stem; like a glove she was. I raised her head; she put out a forked thread tongue to sniff my tangy unwashed scent. I…
Author: Lisa or Li
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Andrea Martin on ICWA and an Antiracist Child Welfare Policy — Turtle Talk
Andrea Martin has posted “Beyond Brackeen: Active Efforts Toward Antiracist Child Welfare Policy,” forthcoming in the Yale Law and Policy Journal, on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Due to structural racism, legal protections afforded to families of children in the foster care system have been significantly eroded and continue to be challenged. As a result, […]…
dVerse — MTB/Form — Limbo
“Eternal Dance,” by geckobird I’ll admit to you, but to deny to all others my immortal pledge, my plum juicy love the sugar for my tea, crumpet joy of union as incarnations spin, seems dizzy curse through beings, puzzling karmic inequity as we swirl, flawed, an unsolvable jigsaw; at every chance meeting, while aeons flux…
Tanka Tuesday 314 — Shadorma series: earth turns
Winter’s End Thin fish soup, winter’s smile stretches grey and tight; we wait for colors to tiptoe in, warm again, springtime bright. Sunflower Giants sleep, yet seeds in soil’s shade; they dream tall, wait to wake, germinate, as end begins rise, ever stalkward. In Season Spring’s herds stir, winged, furred, scaled, and stemmed, sunclock hot,…
#FF — The Great Builder
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields I was raised with foundations of a truth that made me prone to earthquakes, floods, drought, and wildfires. The Great Builder assigned worker bees to this aimless wretch. Stone by stone, my foundation was overlaid with bioliths of resonant wonder, kindness, grace, patience, forgiveness, laughter, companionship, guilelessness – and reciprocation….
dVerse — Poetics — Hara-tsuzumi (Belly Hand Drum) (was quadrille 106)
It had been reported that Tanuki fell from the sky using his scrotum as a parachute. —Tom Robbins, Villa Incognito Shaded sepia Bipedal bandit Bushy chase Big bouncing balls Pendulous paunch Youkai icon Kin to kitsune Debaucherous ninja Shapeshifter Picaresque player For human games Saucy cane rapper Visiting trickster Deals the cards Laid back fun…
dVerse Poetics — and then there was…
primary school student’s art based on Eric Carle collage Her muse fingers slip across glossy magazine pages searching: beyond articulate vibes shake puzzle pieces to populate her collage. She wonders if this is how gods do it. Head of bull, tail of tiger, feet of chicken, woolly barrel chest of buffalo. Clouds grey and winds…
