Showing posts with label sleep. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sleep. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 13, 2026

BABY TALK

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by Deb Myers On TV a man “splained” falling fertility rates citing statistics average output equals 1.5 babes .6 shy of the replacement rate...
Saturday, March 21, 2026

24/7 PRECARITY

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by Mark Danowsky “The Awakening,” 1941, painting by Colonel Louis Keene, Canadian War Museum I fear going to sleep and waking up to war Mark...
Monday, January 20, 2025

INAUGURATION DAY

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by  David Rosenthal AI-generated graphic by NightCafé for  The New Verse News . It’s Monday and the cans are full, but Friday’s garbage day....
Monday, November 04, 2024

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS

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by Anita S. Pulier The campaigns are almost over. The talking heads are on rerun. I feel a strong urge to mop the bathroom floor. Things are...
Friday, November 01, 2024

A PROSE-BENT ODE: THE HEAVY VULTURES DO APPEAR, NOW

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by L. Lois Source: Florida Wildlife Trappers The sky is empty, no hint of cloud, the heavy, dark arc of vultures sweeping low over a world o...
Monday, September 16, 2024

THE CATS OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO

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by Gail White The cats that live in Springfield lie down secure to sleep, for no one comes to hunt them or slaughter them like sheep. Around...
Sunday, September 24, 2023

DREAMING SUMMER DOWN

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by David Chorlton Yesterday’s news sent the city to bed with domestic terror for a nightcap, home grown it said, easy to fund, you can’t kee...
Friday, November 25, 2022

A POEM FOR UKRAINE

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by David James “Writing My Heart Out,” a painting by Gladiola Sotomayor. I want to write a poem that will lick   your heart clean, that will...
Sunday, November 13, 2022

LULLABY

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by William Aarnes “Lullaby,” lithograph by Henry Moore (1973) via Henry Moore Foundation collection . for Hale    Sleep, child; we hope     ...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

DON'T TOUCH MY DREAMS

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by George Salamon Illustration by Beppe Giacobbe for Harper’s Magazine "Can technology shape our dreams?"  —Michael W. Clune, ...
Wednesday, December 02, 2020

THE BIG SLEEP: ARE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WAKING UP?

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by George Salamon “Sleepwalker” sculpture by Tony Matelli at The High Line in NYC. "...an age when Americans were sleepwalking through...
Thursday, November 05, 2020

WHY BLUE

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by Catherine Gonick “Animated Water” by Dragonlord-Daegen at DeviantArt of all the light sent by the sun, blue scatters the most in all dire...
Thursday, October 29, 2020

PARROT THERAPY

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by Ellen Aronofsky Cole Credit: Josh Seong / Verywell The room is fat with jungle sounds. Haiku runs three-dimensional laps around her cage,...

WAITING FOR THE ELECTION TO BE OVER WITH

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by  Penelope Scambly Schott “Frost on the grass,” photograph by Vladimir Axenov. The man is asleep, his arm flung back toward the headboard ...
Monday, September 28, 2020

NOVEMBER 2020

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 by Mary Clurman Wicked Wind by Tracey Savery Davis i. the wind blew wicked hard that day it howled and blew it rocked the house though I s...
Friday, August 07, 2020

VENTILATE

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by Ellen Austin-Li "Breathe," a painting by McKayla Smitson. Father Yaezel hovers on the veil between this world and the...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

PANGOLIN STEW

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by Fran Schumer White-bellied pangolin photo by Darren Pietersen. My son sends a picture of a pangolin; my husband jokes that lunc...