Difficult to believe that January is almost done. Groundhog Day is coming soon, and maybe it will mean only 6 more weeks of winter? This FFF will have pics taken in January but not shared yet. Maybe some music. Maybe a poem. Let’s start with pics. I bought the 5-disc set of “Spectacle: Elvis Costello…
Category: poetry
dVerse OLN 400 — You have to imagine it.
Zohran Mamdani inauguration ceremony You have to imagine it. — from Proof, by Cornelius Eady, Written for the inauguration of Zohran Mamdani, Jan 1, 2026, NYC. You have to imagine it. Teeny tiny crystalswafting straight downsmaller than snowmore like orderly grainsof salt, aiming to scrubwinter politic dirt away. No winds wind us upstill life that…
dVerse Poetics Tuesday — The Seeker
The Seeker Geo, world travelingsearching, rising, falling,tunneling throughentrances, exits;a circuitous tube.Tu be is to beconnected to fabric of All. Note:I decided to use a dream I had back in 2020. The collage is the closest I could come to what I experienced in the dream. I observed George Harrison, traveling on a tube to…
dVerse Q240 — At Mercy
At MercyWhen temps dip belowzero, wind moans bite-numbing frostbite song;at midnight, quiet sighs,a clicking trip: mini-splitdies. Layering buffer works for pudgy humans, cats;wee fishies not so much.We, at mercy of Motherand Machine, firetroubleshooting;ah! warm again!Notes: I’ve had 3 power outages this winter. One was via the power company with downed trees, with power/heat restored within…
Dirty Sham Wow (poem)
Dirty Sham WowHalf dead bully who doesn’t give a rat’s asswhat anybody thinks of him. Just like kidsin school, the hateful wannabes are in hisshadow, enforcing his sociopathic reign of fuckery upon the peoples and landscapesof the globe. Threatening to invade, thendrawing back after everyone gets all hotand bothered. Laughing with his endlesstweets and moronic…
FFF 65 — Cold Ass Weather
I’m not sure what’s going on with WP, but they’ve done something to it. Why mess with the Classic editor? It’s simple for us non-techies and I’ve enjoyed using it since starting blogging at WP. Now you’ve effed with it. Put the KISS option back the way it was please. I was snowed in from…
dVerse Poetics Tuesday — Snow Siren Sea
Snow Siren Sea I like its brightness on scape, white bleaching in stillnessmy warm house like a cozy ship, through portholes gaze uponfrozen sea, where I imagine, bundled up, winter sailor, I braveto swim through it with muk-a-luks to island of parting siren.Warming frozen lock with mittenedpaws, it blessedly clicks.Oh memory, ice solid, that indeed…
Tao Talk 