dVerse — Q234 — Anime Girl

Blue platform shoes. Courtesy Vivienne Westwood. Photo Victoria and Albert Museum, London Anime Girl Stepped from eighties anime,she’s topped,pink mop’sridge falls togreen almonds.Her zygomatsappled rapture.Lipstick smile,bulldog chin,bobble necksouths, slender,to shadow valley.She’s sheathed in pressed purpleelastic sparkle.Her sequins lighttwo matchsticks strike blueplatform shoes. Punam is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday, where we write a 44-word…

dVerse — Prosery — The Enemy

image found at imgur The Enemy Drab olive duffel bulges on white chenille bedspread, waiting. Shaving, questioning in my reflection, I nick the curve of my jaw. Blood drips into sink. “Billy, come down for breakfast!,” Ma yells. I already know it’s blueberry pancakes by the aroma wafting up the stairwell. They’re my favorite, but…

OLN 393 — Destroying Evidence is a Crime

“Liberty Molested” (2024) Destroying Evidence is a Crimeerasure is a capital offenseredacted acts committed don’t existwhen felons strike the match there’s no defensea gravity of culling has besetideas, shapes, and sizes on the blockcreative output yanked from walls & shelvesrecorded testaments of what is bestand worst about a species gone awrywith highs and lows that…

dVerse — Poetics Tuesday — October Means

October Means All earthlings glimmer via playful patina pixies on blue washed or white mottled backdrops squeeze-dried, sweetened, night-refrigerated palette extremes of acorn brown to orange- red flames. Welcome smoke puffs from chim- neys and burning leaves, homely visitors that cause jack o’lanterns to smile in resonance. Flannel rebooted; merino wool caps knitted. Fall festivals,…

dVerse – Q233 — Moon Never Boos

Moon Never Boos Moon never boos night;two partners who share. Night is jealous of sun’shalf-time of blue sphere. Shadow sneaks into dayas things turn and sway, moving to light’s rhythm,slow-motion choreograph. Sun rings mates to flickertwinkling night, water, bright,perpetual balancing game. De (aka whimsygizmo) is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. De would like us…