Month: Nov 2025
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13.11: Ten Things of Thankful
1.Thankful that I was able to catch a photo of this before sunrise clawed back every flash of hoar frost that was left overnight. A hoar frost is one of nature’s true magical exhibits. All it takes is a cold, clear night with calm, dry air to form delicate ice crystals. As a child, I…
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13.11: A Thursday Door
Porte de l’Inconnu Oak, darkas forgotten prayer.A geometry of power,of denial,of great diamonds crossed like swords over a heart.What secretpetrifies behind the door?The wood will not tell.It only says: Turn. Away. Bushboy (Brian Dodd) shares photos of doors, but not just any doors. Spectacular doors from his journeys. Dan’s Thursday Doors opened the door on this. I…
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Day 12 NovPAD Challenge
The Architecture of a Moment The Architecture of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes I. Vantablack They say it’s a colour,but they are wrong.It’s a hunger so absoluteit drinks the light — the velvet throatin the fabric of things. It’s not the black of night,or ink,or space;those are merely dark.This is Physics. A star could weepits fiery…
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12.11: dVerse Prosery
The Coming I stirred the embers with a bone-handled spoon, watching the light ebb from the fields. The year was thinning; even the crows sounded hollow. Yet I smiled, for then and not yesterday, I learned to know the love of bare November days before the coming of the snow. It was a respect without…
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Day 11 NovPAD Challenge
The Architecture of a Moment Notes: Rooted in the oldest English tradition, Anglo-Saxon accentual verse follows the rhythm of breath and heartbeat rather than syllable or rhyme, where meaning is carried by cadence, image, and pause. The Architecture of Formlessness Sunlight through lace,dust turns to stars;cold air kissesbare toes awake. The day beginsto breathe. Written…
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11.11: At the Intersection of Odd Numbers
A Way In The door had always been red — not bright, not cherry, but the dull rust of dried blood and arm-folded resolve. Brigid pressed her palm against it, feeling the wood grain beneath the scabs of paint, crusty layers that reminded her of scraped knees, sun-hot pavement, blood blooming through grit … and…
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Day 10 NovPAD Challenge
The Architecture of a Moment Notes: Rooted in the oldest English tradition, Anglo-Saxon accentual verse follows the rhythm of breath and heartbeat rather than syllable or rhyme, where meaning is carried by cadence, image, and pause. The Architecture of Advice When the world grinds grey, granular, and the weight in your chestturns to gravity, be…
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Day 9 NovPAD Challenge
The Architecture of a Moment Notes: Rooted in the oldest English tradition, Anglo-Saxon accentual verse follows the rhythm of breath and heartbeat rather than syllable or rhyme, where meaning is carried by cadence, image, and pause. The Architecture of Where It’s where the dandelionloses its crown,where raincomes sheeting down, where the river’s reachmeets the waiting…
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Day 9 NovPAD Challenge
The Architecture of a Moment Notes: Rooted in the oldest English tradition, Anglo-Saxon accentual verse follows the rhythm of breath and heartbeat rather than syllable or rhyme, where meaning is carried by cadence, image, and pause. I.The Architecture of Where Where silence hums its deep, unbroken tune;where the past softensunder the patient moon. Where steam…
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The Old Woman With No Cat
The Old Woman Explains Thanksgiving (and other Impossibilities) The cat’s draped across the kitchen table.One paw outstretchedtoward November’s windowwhere a plump pheasant strutsthrough the frost. “Why,” the cat begins, in a tone suggesting a legal challenge,“do Brits not have a feast?And why is that bird so rude,…and so large?It’s taunting me.” The Old Woman sighs,wiping…
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