photo (c) J Hardy WARNING: Disturbing content Chosen by a Goddess For years I watched them. My faded blue uniform, dingy yellow pail on wheels with filthy water, and heavy mop gave me a front-row ticket to the show. Every morning and afternoon, they knelt before me, a chorus of chattering goddesses, their firm young…
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dVerse — Poetics 427 — Shine Folly Moon
Shine Folly Moon Chocolate blue, shine folly moonPant less after beauty that waxesand wanes with every blink.Spring shoots overhead asImpulsive sea water risesWe must fade away with dayBy bare back black ship rumAll crushed shadowy drunkTongues swim gorgeous lipsSmooth hips when sad canNot see some use let meBe but raw breasts and lustWax purple symphonyOn…
Movies, Movies, Movies! #56 – October 27, 2020
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! Ginger and Cinnamon (2003) original title Dillo con parole mie Starring: Stefania Montorsi, Giampaolo Morelli, Martina Merlino, Alberto Cucca Director: Daniele Luchetti Genres: romance, comedy, adventure Synopsis: A couple that are each 30 years old feel mutually frustrated with each other and break up. The woman’s headstrong…
dVerse — Haibun Monday 93 — Ashes of the Dead
In time of war and unholy pogrom, the young boy’s loving parents left him in the care of the old woman who lived on the outskirts of town and raised chickens and a few meager vegetables. Until she died, sitting up, with her feet in a basin of water. He waited and waited for her…
Book Review — The Invention of Sound by Chuck Palahniuk
Every time I begin to read a new Chuck Palahniuk book, either consciously or not I wonder if it can live up to the mind-scrambling beauty of its predecessors. I also wonder if I will be able to show some self-restraint and be able to consume it at a reasonable pace in order to fully…
dVerse — Meet the Bar — Unmasked
Unmasked It began with a sneezeclenched into a wheeze.Squeak-rolled by breezy hazmat suitclad orderlies to the ordered chaos of the vent. No, wait – it began with a date,obstinately masklessface; my smile always wins;not undotted eyes nor pate. I lied, I lie shunned in bright but unsunnedpincushioned, bruisedintubated half-life. Clueless, haunted, ragingthe red-capped famviews my…
#FF — Culinary Campaign
PHOTO PROMPT – © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields All season they march out, culinary soldiers, to our raised bed, pillaging our peppery leaves and primary-colored blossoms. Armed with birchwood baskets, their hands reach with harvesting intent, plucking at-will, collecting our dismembered corpses with bright smiles. Some even whistle as they work. Then back they trudge to dissect…
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