Ev’ry night ascend appointed pathRendezvous until the dark is goneTuck away immortal flights with youCome the sober rose blush of the dawn Doesn’t matter that it isn’t realEven if it’s just in dreams it’s trueCome the sober rose blush of the dawnTuck away immortal flights with you Promise hugged with hope one day unfurledWhen the…
dVerse — Poetics — Rental
Vinyl siding that covers ant-chewed planks,chipped and broken from bottles and baseballs. Concrete steps, cracked from earth-settling, chip-ped when the second-hand fridge got delivered. All windows glass dusty panes, except one’s plastic;the flaked painted molding shows rot, disintegration. The door is hollow core, with many ghosts of locks,kick holes towards the floor of the bare…
#FF — Discombobulation
PHOTO PROMPT© Ted Strutz Myra dreamed of being an architect after her sixth-grade field trip. Mr. James showed the class wall-sized murals, blueprints, 3-D models, then walked them through a church he’d designed. Approaching the end of her first year in college, Myra asked Mr. James if she could be a summer intern. He smiled…
Minnesota Governor Walz “Can’t” Stop LINE 3, by Susu Jeffrey — Rise Up Times
Minnesota is home to the headwaters of the three major North American watersheds that drain north to Hudson Bay, south down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, and east out the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River to the North Atlantic Ocean. Slicing across all three watersheds are two black Enbridge tar sands…
dVerse — Poetics — Solar Sailer
The muse alighted on my shoulder and asked, “Do you really want a home built on stone?” I thought only a moment. “Not anymore.” “Surely not one built on sand or in the trees?” “God forbid, and that goes for one on wheels.” She asked, “Where do you feel most at home?” (Knowing full-well where.)…
#FFFC 130 — “All lines are busy now…”
The photo is from A_Lesik at Shutterstock. After watching the news of Alameda, 50 miles east of here, with images of raging, ravenous flames rising above brave fire fighters, my sleep that night was uneasy. I couldn’t get the images out of my dreams. I woke up coughing, disoriented. It felt like the dream was…
Movies, Movies, Movies! #96 – August 10, 2021
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! Only 3 movies reviewed this week, but all are from The Criterion Collection and all are quality films. Nashville (1975) Criterion Collection spine #683Starring: David Arkin, Barbara Baxley, Ned Beatty, Karen Black, Ronnie Blakley, Timothy Brown, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Robert DoQui, Shelley Duvall, Allen Garfield, Henry…
Tao-Talk 