“Liberty Molested” (2024) Voices in the WildernessVoices keen for aid in snare of wilderness. All can hear the plea, but why don’t we respond?Guilty freezing, dumb; the rest are dumb in bond.Predatory tyranny imprisons us.Patriarchal license, waving magic wands.Voices keen for aid in snare of wilderness.All can hear the plea, but why don’t we respond?Fondled,…
Category: PTSD
Because It’s Important to Share — Attempts at Extinguishing Native American Cultures Continues
Mary Ellen Johnson-Davis Attempts at Extinguishing Native American Cultures Continues I have watched two different things in the past month that have inspired me to write this post. The first one was a documentary, “Missing from Fire Trail Road,” (2024,) which focuses on one particular missing woman from the Tulalip Tribe, Mary Ellen Johnson-Davis. It…
dVerse Poetics Tuesday — Domestic Violence Ain’t No Joke
Domestic Violence Ain’t No JokeSix months into to a life of me and you,we knew your mother was coming to visitbut you socked me in the cheek anyway.Silly you knew the karate you pulled meinto trained in tools to roll with; I grabbedyour arms, fell back, and threw you over into a wall. I met…
Book Review — _Not My Type_, by E. Jean Carroll
Suffused with gallows humor, E. Jean’s chronicle of her being the plaintiff in two trials against Donald Trump is, by turns, triggering and hilariously funny. The first trial is where a jury decides if he raped her or sexually assaulted her and then afterwards defamed her by saying her accusations were lies, he never met…
dVerse — Prosery — Morning Coffee Reflections
To hurt is to steal — Bono and U2, from “Mysterious Ways” on Achtung Baby Morning Coffee Reflections She drinks her morning coffee with them. He, an introverted creeper who preyed on babysitters and kept Polaroids of children in his sock drawer; who wigged out when one of his OCD rules were violated. She, who…
dVerse — Crazy Mary (repost from 2018, with PJ song added)
gif link CRAZY MARY Carefree girl, at homestead safe, with her familyWhen 10, a flu stole her mom, in great agonyWhen 12, wild boar took her dad to hereafterWhen 14, sis ran away, not seen thereafter When 15, brother left for war, never to returnAlone, lived by chickens, snares, veggies – and she learnedBaker’s visits…
dVerse — Haibun Monday — Hold Tight
photo taken Dec 2023 Hold TightA struggle in 2024, a struggle since 1993, when I stopped smoking cigarettes and stopped starving myself. Letting go of a pack a day and fasting left a vacuum that filled with food. Hikes and bike rides, step aerobics and Lake Michigan body surfing, couldn’t – and can’t – keep…
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