dVerse — Poetics Tuesday — The Lions of Gotham

photo by Jeffrey Jung The Lions of GothamBrown-maned, tan-skinned,wandering hi-roller clubs,streets, looking for sweets,jonesing for sugar buzzesmost tender when stakes are high. Eyes huntthen swivel to meet their buddy’s in check party mate when spypretty lashed herdbrightto be cut from and pounced.In lazy times, with appetiteby proxy, they releasedesigner coiffed bait cowswith promise of glamourand…

dVerse — Q229 — August Ablaze

August Ablaze Field jabbered with color, texture of a thousand cups; workers transport pollen to hives, nests, nightly rests. Dark, juicy clusters wait along borders, on fences; opportunistic vines climb, others bellicose spreaders who exact blood tolls. August in Michigan,  ~ ~ ~ ablaze ~ ~ ~ with an unfiltered, purposeful sun. De is today’s…

The Numbers Game #85

  Judy Dykstra-Brown is the host of The Numbers Game.  Judy says: Today’s number is 207. To play along, go to your photos file folder and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find that include that number.

Book Review — _Not My Type_, by E. Jean Carroll

Suffused with gallows humor, E. Jean’s chronicle of her being the plaintiff in two trials against Donald Trump is, by turns, triggering and hilariously funny. The first trial is where a jury decides if he raped her or sexually assaulted her and then afterwards defamed her by saying her accusations were lies, he never met…

#SLS – “More Than This,” by Roxy Music (1982)

Veronica Veronese (cover for single release)By Dante Gabriel Rossetti  I’ve often thought I should do an album where the songs are all bound together in the style of West Side Story, but it’s always seemed like too much bother to work that way. So instead, I have these 10 poems, or short stories, that could, with…

The Oracle Speaks — said the enormous woman

said the enormous woman beneath a blue-pink smeared sky a peachly symphony sweats smooth frantically fingering their apparatus; our headwind panting raw whispers for a spring storm honey moon It’s been awhile since consulting The Oracle.  Nice to be feeling the mojo to do it. The Oracle may be consulted here.