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…
Author: Lisa or Li
mother, grandmother, gardener, observer of nature, reader, writer, learner, bicyclist, woman who runs with the wolves, lover of music, philosophical daoist. Welcome.
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.
Chipmunk Candid Camera
You caught mejust about to leap,thirsty, or just needinga summer bath. Not sure how it is in your corner of the world, but here in West Michigan, the chipmunks are everywhere. They love to rest on top of things like rocks, planters, woodpiles, and this half of a bird bath*. I guess it must have…
POPO2024 Day 15
picture a naked womanembraced ferociouslyas a brilliant universe:youmake sky flower,caramel voice cool,wild rhythms throbbingchampagne(magnet poem)
POPO2024 Day 14
For sixty years A/C was not my way.There may have beena few days when I would have cranked it up each year.Since then A/C has become my daily summer friend. Every day blazes eighty-fivein supposed-to-be coolMichigan. I like fake cool,but it’s an ice-gilt prisonthat lulls me in its comfort.
Friday Favorite Feature 46 — carved Jesus
A Writing Presence asked to see an image of Jesus carved out of a piece of wood. I got this object d’art at a yard sale at work many moons ago now. One of my co-workers used these sales to de-clutter his house and generate money for programs for juvenile delinquents. In this way “trash”…
Tao Talk 