One day I’d love to step outside and pluck you from a tree. Until then, my journey to find you begins at a grocery aisle bin. You, plump, lying with your friends under a fluorescent sun, waiting for an admirer to choose you, to tenuously feel your flesh give. Your skin’s rolling green texture and…
Movies, Movies, Movies! #86 – June 1, 2021
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! There’s a fairly good batch in a varied mix of genres. Something for everyone. The Ballad of Lefty Brown (2017) Starring: Bill Pullman, Peter Fonda, Tommy Flanagan, Kathy Baker, Jim Caviezel, Stephen Alan Seder, Joseph Lee Anderson, Tyson Gerhardt, Lewis Pullman, Joe Anderson, Diego Josef, Adam O’Byrne,…
dVerse — Quadrille 129 — Dragon Lover
What is this curiosity we have for winged, scaled worms called dragons? Proof that subterranean vole-bait may transform to soar at-will? Is it their new capriciousness to choose “scorched earth” that attracts? They still sleep in dark wet, for godsakes! Then I spied one… It’s not easily seen in the picture, but the shadow of…
haiku to haiku slam
small glass globe once helda single moving treasure —now still sushi stench image link I just read a poem that likened haiku to locust descending.
Doodads — cats and plants 053021
Pics of my furbabies and more from a stroll around the yard, this time in the sun.
Haikai Challenge 193 — Memorial Day haiku series 053121
Bones lie where they fell, bullets long buried silence –each Spring poppies bloom. Too many widowsstooped today, wilting at graves —mourning doves take flight. Uniformed, each Springthey march Main in Everytowntrying to forget. image by Greg Cartmell Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge. Frank says:This week, write the haikai poem of…
Book Review — Song Against Shadow: The Song of Svarnil (The Otherworld Series Book 1,) by Anne E.G. Nydam
I was first introduced to Anne’s work through April’s A to Z Challenge. I started participating in and reading other participants in 2019. Anne’s blog theme that year was fantastical creatures. What impressed me most about her entries was the research into the beasts with ample illustrations, wood prints whenever possible. Her 2020 theme was…
Tao-Talk 