This and That Are OneMerging libidosFusion-powered ecstasyIlluminates usPulsing new in old darknessForming new clay from old dust~Warning: over-fired vessels flare~Sun’s trajectoryBurns toward imminent duskHere, under a starless skyCold blows over shattered bitsDissolved in pools of hot tears puente form poem (with tanka) image link Robbie Cheadle is today’s host of TankaTuesday. Robbie says:This week we are…
POPO2024 Day 31
I pour myself into fantasy worldswith their plots, emotional manipulations;safe spaces to feel.They keep me humanas I drift further from reality.I prefer their limitationsover the uneasy discomfortof awkward face-to-faceswith their wrong reads.People like me are better suitedto our fantasy worlds,odd characters on page and screen.
dVerse — Q209 — Boarders
American Indian Boarding School in the 1800’s BoardersA string of stolen children, scared, confused, snake, capped with flying penguins.Led to stools, stripped, dusted,and shaved, paving the way:institutional erasure.Sacked, sad, desked, rapped,slapped — and worse.So much worse. Unwilling orphans cry for parents.Unheard pleas echo lifetimes. From the Law Librarians of Congress website: In 2021, Canada passed…
POPO2024 Day 30
A hummingbird just cruised by,looking for last year’s sulfur cosmos.It strikes me that she hasa food supply memory.Sorry, little lady, not yet;but come back next weekand fill your wee belly.
POPO2024 Day 29
Is there anything more relaxingwhen the mind starts to racethan the coo of mourning dovein duet with a purring cat?Two worlds, synchronized;one moment, this momentas I drink first cuppajoe,windows open, looking outon plants that have bloomed,those about to, and the growingnumber of golf ball-sized tomatoes.
Doodads — tomato, prickly pear propagation, fermenting, witch hazel, oh my
There are still pics from Tuesday at fmg but they will have to wait. Instead, the focus of this post will be tomatoes, prickly pear propagation, more fermentation, and status of the witch hazel bushes. Tomatoes It’s been an ongoing experiment with the purple reign tomatoes. The reviews that said they produced dwarf tomatoes is…
POPO2024 Day 28
The wild has beenbred out of us;the part that recognizessoul huntersthen flees or fightsto see tomorrow’s light.Yet the urges remain,to rationalize then actin dark savage ways.We pad plush cagesin domesticities’ days,but under cast moonsprowl forests,blood in our hearts,seeking prey.
Tao Talk 