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…
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A2Z 2025 — Day 3 Cottonwood Catkins and Cosmos
Cottonwood Catkins There were no cottonwood trees growing here when we moved here in 2011. We had some of what we thought were sycamore trees in pots and planted them. Both turned out to be cottonwood. They’ve grown very quickly. This pic was taken on 032925, where the catkins are out. Some people don’t like…
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…
A2Z 2025 — Day 2 — Blackberries and Bluebirds
Blackberries Along the yard and out in the back there are hundreds of blackberry bushes and thousands of berries that grow and ripen on them. They grow on their own and can be severely pruned but come right back. The pathways have to be cleared of them regularly or the paths become unpassable. I usually…
#MMB 2025 — April — “In April,” by Johnny Flynn, written by Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice
Johnny Flynn, photo by Eleanor Janelink takes you to a 2021 guitar.com article on Johnny Here we are at the first (week) of April, all fools for one thing or another. Like Nancy said, there are a lot of songs out there with April in songs or song titles. While scanning for an artist I…
A2Z 2025 — Day 1 — Angel and Arborvitae
Angel I saw the angel at the garden shop and knew I wanted her in the yard. Made of concrete, I needed help loading her into the trunk of the car. Underestimating her weight and overestimating my strength, when I lifted her off of the wheelbarrow? wagon? to set on the back patio, I dropped…
dVerse OLN 381 and 3/18 Poetics Tuesday: Ode to My Granddaughter
Ode To My Granddaughter(fashioned upon Keat’s, “Ode to a Nightingale”)My bones ache and weariness pervades;My qi wanes as it disperses to four winds,Sucked away, gone into vastness of space.It’s time for time’s reckoning; its vortex spins.But you, Dear Granddaughter, dancingThere, singing melodious beats among trees.You, fresh sprung youth, no concept of worry,We watch you, so…
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