A2Z 2025 — Day 4 — Doves

Doves Mourning doves are plentiful in my yard.  I wrote a poem on them awhile back. you may call them turtle doves; monogamous pairsyet menage a trois at times, during courtship gameswhen wings whistle on take-off, flying fast and straightthey live thirty years or more and stay through seasonstheir streamlined yet pudgy forms, of silk,…

dVerse — MTB — Open, Season

Open, Season Bulbous, about-sprouting from ginger experiment planted,fascinates, as likensto libidinous rising.Open manifest of urge to life stirs. Brethren, called to Spring’s calllikewise burst in round and pointed ways.My gaze fixedon their green sex. Who saysit’s confined towarm bloodpumping up and up? Tiny eggsand spermput to dirtbed sleep.Warm wetdreamsawake,open.Come,life! Muskegon (my home town) boy, Iggy…

FFF 63 on a Wednesday. “Stay (Faraway, So Close!)” by U2 from Zooropa

Sleeve designed by Works Associates of Dublin under the direction of Steve Averill Out of the immeasurable discography of U2, Zooropa tends to get overlooked. Not casting judgment for those who are unfamiliar with the album, as it is understandable. With The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, and All that You Can’t Leave Behind – among…

Women Music March 2025 – Day 31 –Selena Gomez

Selena Gomez And now, onto the last, but certainly not least for WMM 2025:  Selena Gomez! Up until writing up this post, I’ve only know Selena as one of the trio of podcast detectives on the HULU series, “Only Murders in the Building.”  Her character (Mabel Mora) along with Steve Martin’s (Charles Haden-Savage) and Martin…

Women Music March 2025 – Day 30 — L.A. Witch

L.A. Witch, photo by Mona Haworth driver Sade Sanchez (vocals/guitar)front seat passenger Irita Pai (bass)back seat Ellie English (drums) The name is a partial misnomer. Though the band hails from Los Angeles,they do not partake in any sort of witchcraft.Yet their ability to conjure a specific time and place through their sound does suggest a…