Virginia Giuffre For Virginiafather’s rape taught her rulessheltered acts via patriarchy;she, an object to be (ab)usedmouth used for unspeakableuntil, broken, obliteration’s silence child at play depends on caresafety, warmth, needs are metgross flipping of foundation’s scripttrauma-twisted her development father’s rape taught her rulesswapped with neighbor’s daughterwhile mothers drank to blindnesstwo men allies got their pervy…
Category: poetry
dVerse Poetics Tuesday — Rancid Spam (for mature audiences)
image link Rancid SpamMake-upped face like a hatchetponderous gait like a teletubby;not cute like snowpuff Moomin,more bloated like dying whaleflopping on a deserted beach.Long beyond expiration datelike grey-slimed celery in bin.Greasy like sauteed monkey brain, contaminating mad reign,causing pain like vice-crushedfinger with no money for treatment.A focal point of angry hatredlike a big boil on…
The Oracle Speaks — Heaves
Heaves Mistly men scream. Thousands sleepfrom life, neverrecall red rainsprays eat sky. You watch throughmean purple lightraw, sweating shadowsuits with whys. Some must meatnot sing, mad in fiddle drive,smelly, ugly heaves. The Oracle speaks through magnet poetry.
FFF 66 — Doodads
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…
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 SeekerGeo, 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 the…
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…
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