dVerse’ MTB Thursday — Do Plants Go To Heaven?

Do Plants Go to Heaven?Where did crinkle-petaled salmon poppies gothat blossomed along painted white brick fencebetween gramma & grampa’s place and uncle’s?Where did stunted white rose of sharon tree go, under yard-wide shade of oaks, centered with redblossoms, within child’s reach, adults face high?Where did giant lilac trees go, perfuming yard;cut down to stumps by…

Problems with Enbridge Line 5

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#FF — End One Way

PHOTO PROMPT © Lisa Fox End One Way “It needs more cowbell,” says John. Yoko, holding the cowbell, smirks and nods. “I can’t keep proper time with it gonging in my ear,” says Ringo. “Forget the cowbell. We need some horns to offset the piano,” says Paul. Billy had mentioned this to Paul last night…

#MMB 25 August – “Wharf Rat,” by The Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead album cover opened Let me begin by saying I know next to nothing about The Grateful Dead and am familiar only with the songs that got airplay, like Casey Jones and Truckin’. When I first started blogging at WordPress and started following Jim Adams’ blog, I learned he was a dedicated Deadhead. I…

dVerse Poetics Tuesday — Walk About

Felt Mansion Walk AboutI stand up from the sturdy wooden armed school chairand follow the gurgle to aquarium whose water is too lowset between two windows, as dusk falls the birds haveflown and deer graze tender grass and clover out other.Open slider into atrium that is still too warm; thirsty plantprisoners behind glass call out…

dVerse — Prosery Monday — Future’s Garden

“William Morris 6” The future gathers in vine, bush, and tree:Persimmon, walnut, loquat, fig, and grape”by Yvor Winters from Time and the Garden Future’s Garden She wakes to coughs, groans, and clanks. Rubbing her eyes, crusted with dust, she winces and wonders how much time she has before her clouded corneas become blindness. Or will…

Liberty Molested

I created this collage after Roe v. Wade was overturned.  Things have gotten so much worse since then. light’s blaze must melt ice while dreaming of heads rolling thoughts congeal with blood