1. Which Scandinavians were Super Trooper’s in 1980? No idea, but I’ll guess Sweden. 2. Whose first of many hits was “Your Song” in 1971? Elton John 3. Which song has been recorded by Elvis Presley, the Sex Pistols and Frank Sinatra? My Way 4. Which Beach were Martha and the Muffins on in 1980?…
Category: poetry
Dverse Poetics Tuesday – Detail, Immediacy, Revelation, Oh My!
by Marcel Herms What are we going to do with Pet?It sits on the side lot of a bigger housepale green vinyl siding covers most;but chewed looking boards act as hembetween cinder block foundation andlifeless-looking dirt surrounding converted garage turned slum rental.The mother comes to the dirty white door in faded pink waitress uniform, bleachedhair…
dVerse Haibun Monday — Winter Bones
Bones of Winter White crystal bones, strewn on the surface of the land. A million bones to sift through to reconstruct a framework of reference. Cold, inert, matters to be melted, moved, covered, walked on by all manner of living beings. Piles of bones, pushed and blown into convenient places. Crumbles and patterns, geometric shapes…
Laugh (repost from September, with a few names added)
LaughIt’s a rotten system.No wonder it’s going under.Congress, funded lackieswith investmentsin their Overlords’ stocks,E’erbody wrapped upin rhetoric while cities burn.Body count rises,and innocents disappeared.Protests shine limelighton decay to the world,but what does it DO?What drives despotsmad is our belly laughs.Lungs bellow blades,slice into revealing truth,outing throughgelatinous rancid goo.Laugh as if your freedomdepended on it. This…
FFF 64 — Music, Poetry, Pictures
image link Gotham leads the waywatch a reverse dominoplay out: eyes of hope when winter sun shinesall becomes right with the worldhope for tomorrow For all of you audio (and video) loving peeps out there, you know how much music you listen to across genres, times, places, you know it can be difficult to distinguish…
from The Current: “Tunnel Vision: The question we should be asking about the Line 5 crude oil pipeline,” by Jeffrey Insko
Wood TV image link (from 2022) The Current Tunnel Vision The question we should be asking about the Line 5 crude oil pipeline. Jeffrey Insko Dec 30, 2025 Things don’t have to be this way. This is among the most important things to be learned from the study of subjects like literature, history, art,…
2025: the year in reading
Since I stopped using Firefox for my browser, I lost all of those cool apps I had, like screen shots. I can’t figure out how to get an app that works on the PC that will do screen shots on Duck Duck Go, so I went the mechanical way and took pics of the books…
Tao Talk 