Book Review — From Under the Truck: A Memoir, by Josh Brolin

Death is a mysterious dream, and dreams are always the most curious sport. — Josh Brolin Small book (226 pages) but dense in material. It hops all over the place with its 2-3 page mini chapters that describe moments in Brolin’s life. This haphazard sharing works in its favor, as being chronological would have made…

FFF 59 — Day of Love

When garden guestshave long gone and into cold winter nightWhen all is quietbut for fountain-gurgled splashes,could you but spyyou’d see them flit,wee beasties withsparkle-trailed wingsriding orchid’s backs.They rise and raceto frilly cheers heardonly by earthworm ears. Each card an awkwardaspect of love’s alphabetin retrospect, safely tuckedin its vintage array.Yet pause a moment and let them…

dVerse OLN 378 Tingled

  TingledYou tingle meas you fall.Beam-fluttered,I shiver in yourtextured patterns.You come to meas you will,with your silverpuffed friendswho lie, theirdark smirkslove’s rebuke.Despite, I runnel you,now slinking under crust of ice. I thought of love between snow and weak-winter sun. Björn is today’s host of dVerse’ Open Link Night. Björn gives us an optional prompt:So as…

#FF — Winter Pastimes

PHOTO PROMPT © David Stewart Winter Pastimes Winter is a time for puzzles and dreaming. Everyone knows Ginger likes puzzles, so she has a stockpile to choose from. She’s been saving “Miller’s Pond” for awhile. Its cloudy-skied gloominess isn’t what she’s looking for in mid-February. She reaches for a colorful equatorial puzzle with a green…

dVerse Poetics VD humor

image link Farty HeartyCharmin* or charming?wiping or swiping*?both needed products?Septic or sepsis?tanks or antibiotics?evacuation or fulfilling?Both bodily functionsof will and the willing.Waste or lust?Shit or grocery store roses?Both soul-empty,like Valentine’s prison quicky.*Notes:*Charmin is a brand of toilet paper.*swiping screens on Tindr, a dating app*see Dark History of Valentines Day video Sanaa is today’s host for…