laying asphalt a long and winding road toward eruption With all the lack of care consumerists can muster skyward plumes subterranean ash falls along our path But what do we care when there’s so much more to make our own last lava flow extinction for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille […]
The commute begins. Cruising 65-70 miles-per-hour, I pass two exits. Then tail-lights appear. Stop-and-go traffic crawls. Pressure mounts. Cruising speed across the bridge. Then a parkway, with more bumper-to-bumper traffic. Pressure reaches critical. parking space making it to the bathroom in the nick of time for dVerse Poets’ […]
They stand, kneel, twirl suspended in the air on ascending trapezes. All while a golden sphere glittering in golden spotlights rises. The music plays on. The dance continues–on an above the ground. “Here comes the sun…” Cirque de Solei’s Beatles Love “shines on” for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille 83 […]
The ESP shines in the corner. When I first received that high school graduation present, I could not put it down. I routinely played Pentatonic scales, jazz fusion riffs and blues chord progressions in the basement. How many nights did I play Led Zepplin’s Black Dog or Pink […]
Do you fear me? I come, bearing the storm! Delight with me in wind and water. Or despair of me in monsoon and typhoon. Force me back into the cave, if you dare. Or ride me! deepening twilight ascending and decending in this life for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille […]
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