Cheeto

image link blubbered lips, invisible hips, hands built on a model of Ken’s* privileged perspectives, racist directives, capitalist common sense spill oil on pristeen, frack gas from the clean, “nature’s my b****, are you dense?” plant factoids with mimes in impressionable minds, chasm grows – there is no more fence.   Word of the Day…

Poetry –manifestation

https://gph.is/2udQdvv     gif link A thumping, a glumping, a bumping is heard I turn and there’s nothing, I swear. It’s darkening, fear’s hearkening. Then suddenly, a dank chill fills the air. Shawl pulled closer, mood grows moroser, Sparks prickle the ends of my hair. Mood’s getting intense, I light the incense. Oh dear, what’s…

Word of the day challenge — magnetism

image link you depend upon the ratio of positive to negative, where enough positive draws me towards your center. i’m stuck to you in a physical, unbreakable bond – unless your elements shift.   Word of the Day Challenge — magnetism

Word of the Day Challenge — Manifesto

in the confined spaces of her mind there exists a world, complete, all she has to do is capture it on paper then share it with the world. if only they’d see, see what she has so carefully worked out in the confines of her brain they would understand. why can’t they try? their eyes,…

The Legend of Little Green

Today’s offering is loosely, very loosely, based on the Word of the Day.   In the green years of a small life, a black hole opened up, and sucked her soul into it. She became Small Shadow. * Small Shadow saw the world in only the way a soulless being can. She longed for the…

A day at the beach

image link A Diamante is a seven-lined contrast poem set up in a diamond shape. Body warm, supple undulating, scintillating, welcoming strong, wet, cold, swimming struggling, drowning, disappearing lifeless, rigid Corpse   Word of the Day Challenge — scintillating

Father John (content warning)

image link The following is drawn loosely from a documentary I saw and from watching scary movies.  Please be warned there is disturbing content and imagery that may be triggering.   The elderly priest shuffles down the stone path, carefully balancing with his cane, which is carved with the long-suffering face of a blood-soaked, thorn-crowned…