If you are a dreamer, come in. –Shel Silverstein, from Invitation At ten, it was screamed epithets and the rhythmic crack of dad’s belt on her back as she curled on the filthy floor. At twenty, it was the sound of her drunken boyfriend’s fist crunching fine bones in her face. At thirty, it was…
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dVerse — MTB — A Blessing and a Curse
The idea in our culture of body solely as sculpture is wrong. Body is not marble. That is not its purpose. Its purpose is to protect, contain, support and fire the spirit and soul within it, to be a repository for memory, to fill us with feeling – that is the supreme psychic nourishment. It…
dVerse — Poetics — The Warm Sky Woke Above
The Warm Sky Woke Above (The Flip) The warm sky woke above; Below the cold earth dull; From tightly constrained, To an appealing refrain, Of peaked heights, heat, and valleys of flora. The heart of day, like life, did thump in Synched beat with rising sun. The summery bouquet was rainbow; The…
dVerse – Quadrille 125 – Bacchus’ Blush
Breathe, wine barrels! Bamba the bodega! Corked Chianti and her sister Chablis decant; earthy fermentation fortified rosy grenache. Herb(aceous,) iced Jeraboam’s kabinett, revs Lambrusca with magnums of merry merlot. Nebbiolo! Oaky plonked port, reserva for Rioja – sancerrely semillon. Tokay! VinSanto yields her zinfandel. Poem origin story: I googled wine terms and found a wonderful…
dVerse — Poetics — out to dry
shirt arms flapsignal helpcool lips siptea and watch towels snapracing windhard fiberson smooth skin dainties blushnear jock strapson the line still strangers oh cee deelines them up,fresh, clean, andclipped just-so birds choose whichclean target to dive-bombone load per the two catssuperviseto make surethey’re hung right image link De Jackson (aka whimsygizmo) is today’s dVerse…
dVerse — Haibun Monday — Spring Promise
Sakura Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park opened in April 1995 in Grand Rapids, MI. Since then, the gardens have expanded and the sculptures have increased to 158 acres and nearly 300 sculptures. In June 2015, an 8-acre Japanese garden was installed that includes a stand of cherry trees. I’ve walked the Japanese garden several…
dVerse — Meet the Bar — Ramble On
To ramble on when seasons shiftembed the genes of winged and furredto group, compelled to far-off trystswhere helices get spliced and stirred. Embedded genes of winged and furredexpress in random nested formsas helices get spliced and stirredin slight mutations with each turn. Expressed in random nested forms,in warm relief twixt straw and rock,the slight mutations…
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