dVerse — labor/birth — To Be

Spring moon’s plea Bulging stray momma cat Fashioned sign to me You were to be Five kittens so many mittens Skin hemisphere balloon La Maze La Leche La La La Cards, boards, pegs Tick-tocked centimeters Winter moon’s trudging Circuits, making snow butter Babydaddy nurse say Sleightime! Showtime! Velvet curtain in fifty-five Spacepod malfunction Fuzzy grease…

Chris Isaac, “Heart Shaped World” CCP 111219

Per wikipedia: Heart Shaped World is the third album by Chris Isaak. Released in 1989, it became his breakthrough album and featured the Top 10 hit “Wicked Game”. When Heart Shaped World was released in the summer of 1989, it was on Billboard’s pop 200 album chart for ten weeks, peaking at number 149; but…

Movies, Movies, Movies! #11 – November 12, 2019

Hyde Park on the Hudson (2012) Starring: Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Colman, Samuel West, Elizabeth Marvel, Elizabeth Wilson, Eleanor Bron, Olivia Williams Director: Roger Michell Synopsis: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, when not in the White House, is at his mother’s country home on the Hudson River. This movie is two-pronged. One focuses on the King…

The Sonnette — Moon Madness

As golden orb meets darkened waves Up creeps the moon on backs of pine And frosted disc freeze cold greased minds A madness reigns – moonshadow’s slaves * Until the rose, each morning comes Warm as a mouth with skin that shines A madness flees with each new sun.   Paul Szlosek at Paul’s Poetry…

What do you see? #3 — A Day at the Beach

Sadje is the host of What do you See? Misty had spent the day in mid-July at the beach, on a blanket under an umbrella reading while the surf washed up against the shore with a calming shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sound. At some point Misty must have dozed off. She began to dream that she was at…

#FFFC 40 — The Man in the Mirror

Pixabay at Pexels.com Herman’s daughter had been begging him for a self-portrait for the past year. Herman had been diagnosed with lymphoma two years previous and had been doing his best to stay alive since then. It was September. Herman had a feeling the coming Christmas would be his last. He decided to paint a…

dVerse — prosery 6 — Lights Out

One Mid-November Monday temperatures hovered around freezing. Dusk pulled up its blanket as rain fell then froze to trees as Arctic air swept in. Limbs groaned with burden. Victims’ cracks and crashes echoed outside of the house, and the earth vibrated with their landing — the equivalent of an earthquake in Michigan. The old willow…