For those of us who live along the western edge of Michigan, the lake is in our back yards. I’ve never lived more than five miles from the lake (for long) as the water pulls me to it. Beyond the water though, the sand dunes act as both a buffer to any weather that comes…
Category: dverse
dVerse — verbify — motioning
coffeeing sips early miling fall tomatoing depeppering plants deadheading pinks watering dusts due to hoarding clouds sweating, drained, chickadeed, jaying, unseeded lazying, jungled and joking unhumusing compost unrelaxed incenser Björn is today’s host for dVerse. Björn says: Verbing is a great tool that can also be a tool for imagery and metaphors….
dVerse — Poetics — Night Harvest
Night Harvest Farmer neighbors join hands, bringing in the sheaves under a wheat moon while babies curl in baskets dreaming of milky warm breasts image: “The Harvest Moon,” by Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) Rosemarie Gonzales is today’s host at dVerse. Rosemarie says: Write a poem about or with “wheat” and its possible variations.
dVerse — quadrille 110 — real good for free
Real good for free slipping out of k-count silk into carrie bradshaw blahniks, now clicking down fifth avenue. there — a busker bum with a clarinet. now jaywalking, she stands near enough to smell the cooking high notes. stunned, brimming with props, lunch at the carlton can wait My title and poem…
dVerse — poetics — clowns and waves
The elementary school sat across from the old folks home. Each Halloween, kindergarten through fifth graders paraded in a circuit that went from around the school property, across the street, and past a large plate glass window at the end of the second floor of the seniors’ building. Clowns, princesses, mutant turtles, scissor-hands, rangers,…
dVerse — MTB: Stream of Consciousness — To My Son
My subject to write on was my older son, now in his 30’s. We had lunch together outside of his workplace yesterday. We sat in our bag chairs on a spot of grass off of the parking lot. I set the timer for ten minutes and let the stream flow. Then I read…
dVerse — quadrille — Gethsemane’s Check
Labyrinth in Grand Rapids, MI. Photo taken August 5, 2020. Gethsemane’s Check A large carved brick disc is plopped in the center of a near-urban churches’ garden. Chartre-styled snakes undulate with purple petunias at midday to wind chimes. Highway noises call like trapped surf in machined shells, far from the sea. Only ants walk…
