July 2025
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Fish Tales (poem)
A Quadrille prompt at dVerse Poets earlier this week from Mish, another 44 word poem with a prompted single word to include. The word this time around? “Fish” The prompt explains, more in full, Mish’s inspiration. ////////////////////////////////////////// Fish Tales They hung flung high in the air where they stunk of fish too long in the… Continue reading
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XTC and Days
Broke out XTC’s “Oranges and Lemons” from back in ’89 earlier this week as the weather called for something that wasn’t my latest in the car, the slog of old school Deep Purple, in all their iterations. Now for reference, I don’t listen to music any longer except in the car, 25 minutes at a… Continue reading
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Star Speckled Black Brighter Days (prosery)
This week Kim brings us a prosery idea at dVerse Poets, a 144 word piece of prose to include one line from a poem or song. In this case, a line from Dereck Walcott’s “Dark August” …“I would have learnt to love black days like bright ones” ////////////////////////////////////////// Star Speckled Black Brighter Days Great grandfather’s… Continue reading
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Orange Quarantine (song re-visit)
Spent the weekend doing nothing (holy crap! really?! that’s new … shut up m’fr!) one new post and then just eyes and headphones down to some old stuff, a bit of a re-set if you will as it seemed necessary. Re-read a lot of old things just to remind myself that I wasn’t totally crazy… Continue reading
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Cherry Door Thrift Store (poem)
In faded graying thought impossible to escape mirror laments hidden beneath a yawning ballcap back creaked cracked years bent brim broken just right banked, bowed, earned right ballcap to whisper right disguise I pull down tight . And a past fedora bought for haggled quarter in a giggling college thrift store haunt spirited of hanging… Continue reading
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Same Stuff, Different Birthday
Well the fourth … hold on … no, fuck you ad (freakin’ calendar phone apps) keep holding … you know what, let me just turn this over old school instead on a wall with a tack, oh hello July, you look like a younger Grayson (he was a cat, a very special cat) … …… Continue reading
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