Day trip, along two roads of perpendicular straight lines,cuts through endless fields, punctuated by bergsand a prison. One way ends and then begins curves;first anchored by a rectangle that serves as a dash between a poetry of smooth golden-rodded turrets’ curves.Inside, heavy, burnished oak of narrow staircases curlever upward; tree repurposed to vine. At last,…
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dVerse — Poetics — In Mexico Again
One day I’d love to step outside and pluck you from a tree. Until then, my journey to find you begins at a grocery aisle bin. You, plump, lying with your friends under a fluorescent sun, waiting for an admirer to choose you, to tenuously feel your flesh give. Your skin’s rolling green texture and…
dVerse — Quadrille 129 — Dragon Lover
What is this curiosity we have for winged, scaled worms called dragons? Proof that subterranean vole-bait may transform to soar at-will? Is it their new capriciousness to choose “scorched earth” that attracts? They still sleep in dark wet, for godsakes! Then I spied one… It’s not easily seen in the picture, but the shadow of…
dVerse — OLN — Kindku Double Feature
Healer Magician, god-imbued face, stage-glides in feathers soul searching each heart to pour the kindness of grace. Mango sunrise through stained glass sears clean forbidden streaks as it heals heaven’s lost. Magicked Magician, your tricks ruffle soft through my feathers, soul strings thrummed in tune. A strange mix of carnal grace, mango martinis where redeemed…
dVerse — Poetics — Repurposing
“I’m in a glass case of emotion.” -Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, 2004 – Repurposing I’m in a glass case of emotioncasually placed on your shelfa trophy for the world to seeyet suffocating, dessicating,becoming a museum piece;an oddity, an icon of other times,something you visit on “free day” Let me be your Wardian casedeep…
dVerse Haibun Monday and Haikai Challenge 191: Flower Moon
This Spring, in addition to bluebirds nesting in one of their boxes, there are two pair of ducks and a pair of sandhill cranes nesting along the ponds out back. I’ve seen the ducks take flight on my walks. The cranes have strategically placed their nest in an area that is now impassable due to…
dVerse — MTB — Nature’s Waltz
Nature’s Waltz When the outside comes in on the breeze, When the stale air inside floats away, When the scent of the lilac makes me sneeze, When the song of the wind chimes say that we made it to Spring through the greys. When the reds of the robins return When the orange of the…
