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24 November: For Red Wolf
24 November: 6ºC, feels like it should be frosty, but it’s not. First coffee of the day, and I’m looking out the kitchen window at a woman in a blue plaid lumberjack shirt. Her white dog is wearing a matching gilet. I never clothed my dog. My dog was a dog. A neighbour dresses her…
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24 November: 06 Völuspá
Völuspá: Svalin He carries a shield,calls it Svalin. It stands before sun, more gloriousthan cold iron. Deity of sea and rock,heaven, hawks and Hel dogs. Burnt from the place it fell,weary weight of the sun. Awake. Its face is triumphant andby its one name it’s always been known. By its one purpose, ancientsoul destroyer. It…
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24 November: Found Poetry
Run She runs through the night.Strains her feetin every direction.Seventy times seven.Those empty years without You.Secretly.Silently.And she threw herselfinto his embrace. Images are copyright and not to used without permission, which I willingly give when asked, and when not for commercial use. Wounded by Love, The Life and Wisdom of St Porphyrious, First published in…
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23 November: A Thursday Door
The Danes love to paint their front doors. This one is in Fåborg. 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 love doors of all sorts. I’ve trawled through my photos and found a few to share.…
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23 November: Found Poetry
But First … he said, you must become a poet.Wings in flight, to livein dreams amongst stars.Infinity amid silence. Images are copyright and not to used without permission, which I willingly give when asked, and when not for commercial use.Wounded by Love, The Life and Wisdom of St Porphyrious, First published in English 2005. ISBN…
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22 November: Found Poetry
Mother and Child To be good out of fear, This is not out of love.This is not Our religionOr humility.A whole soul or A whole heart. Images are copyright and not to used without permission, which I willingly give when asked, and when not for commercial use. Wounded by Love, The Life and Wisdom of…
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21 November: Found Poetry
Friends There was a friend,a forever face,clear as water and roses. Monday, we were friends.Tuesday, we were languageexploringthe meaning of each other. We were beginners. Images are copyright and not to used without permission, which I willingly give when asked, and when not for commercial use. Wounded by Love, The Life and Wisdom of St…
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20 November: Usaquen Street Vendor
I took this photo five years ago in the Usaquen District of Bogotá, Colombia. He was selling jewellery – speaking with customers in an easy, comfortable way, his back resting against the white-washed wall of a churchyard. I remember thinking this was probably the most visually perfect man I’d ever seen. And then close by,…
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20 November: Found Poetry
The Letter T This heart can never love enough.The more wine I drink,The more I want.This is not difficultTo understand. Images are copyright and not to used without permission, which I willingly give when asked, and when not for commercial use. Wounded by Love, The Life and Wisdom of St Porphyrious, First published in English…
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19 November: She Without Name
She Without Name You know that time between dreaming and waking, when you roll over and your dyne starts for floor, but there’s still enough covering your legs to keep yourself on the side of being covered … Well, that’s when she arrived. She’s white as northern new snow that sparkles like laughing stars, and…
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