Wordgrove Post & Review

The heavy red roses smoldering in the foggy morning, blood-colored and uninhibited, made me greedy, and tempted me powerfully to steal one–I asked the prices merely so I could come as near them as possible. ~Knut Hamsun

The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little nook, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody’s fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind. ~Katherine Mansfield

Maybe we’re here only to say: house, bridge, well, gate, jug, olive tree, window ? at most, pillar, tower … but to say them, remember, oh, to say them in a way that the things themselves never dreamed of existing so intensely.           ~Rainer Maria Rilke

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Post from the Grove: Still tinkering with the format, but Wordgrove’s newsletter has taken a new title for its masthead. Reflecting its dual purpose, the editor chose: Wordgrove Post & Review

The Prewritten prompt chosen by Piffin for this week’s Word Game on Thurs (9/27 ~  5 PT, 8 ET) is: Mexico These games are fun and you are invited!

@Writers Platform: Several books are scattered on the benches and around the platform, but the glass library table currently has a single book to show. It is hoped that new work will come to share this space, but old favorites are welcome

Thursday Word Game ~ 9/20: dash, phantasm

~Piffin: Three paragraphs of words living intensely, capture neighborhood life (not the ‘hood); begins in description, ends a benediction

~Jessalee:  Jessa used dash and phantasm in her recipe for a vampireling’s teething biscuits. Some ingredients are pure Out Land-ish, otherwise, seems doable should the need arise

Prewritten ~ 9/20

~Jessalee~ where i write – A warming fire and the enveloping comfort of her writing chair drops Jessa into the trance-world where her characters come to throbbing life for her

This editor’s Impromptu and Prewritten for the week were haiku too short for review

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Writers in Residence:

~Piffin @Cinderella Sneakers: Precipitating – The story of a relationship with the whiff of sulfur to it, the discovery of decision and the freedom of doors closing; rich in detail, crisp in the telling, not a word wasted in the excitement

~Greymane @Greyed Expectations 2 – The Beast A primeval beast with fear for wings and a flaming rage for weapon hides its lair in plain sight

~Whitefeather @Firelight, and the Moonlight: Firelight – The silence of snow falling, the sound of firelight, two breathing as one in contentment                       ~

~Greenie @I like the rain: I like the rain – Image follows image chases image in the marvels of a gentle night rain, Greenie surrenders to it

~GaryBob @NutNut Fountain: NutNut Fountain – Thwarted by nature at every turn, a young squirrel’s seemingly wasted work produces a wooded haven for his family years later; GB’s creation legend for the Grove and its resident Nutters

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