The Chantelier

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Father, shanty-singer, dreamer, designer, maker, thinker, reader, writer, editor and collector; idealist, leftist, socialist, humanist, ecologist and technologist; depressive optimist, perpetual believer-in, uncommon friend, unceasingly-distractable inattentor; entreater of words and wellspring of lunatic ideas.

This is my creative fedi-account.

Webhttps://write.as/chantelier
Tech Fedidentity@paraxion

Silent rock, gravity-caught, hanging outside the picture window, beautiful Selene; Luna, framed between eucalypt, distant hills, clear frost and daylight.

Mere 74 yottagrams, unthinkable tonnage, motionless and calm-quiet, asphalt-grey but white-bright reflection, her maria battle-wounds. Child of Theia, violent ejecta coalesced to coddle and protect.

Across the planet a friend sees her and we admire her together; a #supermoon to shield and shepherd and inspire.

I love today
and to wake up
and to possibilities
that weren't
but are

it's the way it breathes
unapologetic and alive
vibrating with
anticipation and discovery

to know
what I put in
what I receive

that everyone is in today with me

today, is going to be
unique and promising

#poem #Poetry

Life is too short to be saddled with a single genre.

#writing

Story Prompt: Jean Lescure invented N+7. If you like surreal, this one's for you. Replace every noun with one that comes a few entries later in the dictionary. Don't worry, it's automated: http://www.spoonbill.org/n+7/

#flash #FlashFiction #StoryPrompt #WritingPrompt

N+7

An implementation of Oulipo's N+7/S+7 procedure for modifying texts

It was a technological civilization, but not spacefaring. As near as we could tell, they didn’t even have satellites around their planet.

When we got within visual range we realized why: the world was so massive that no reaction—chemical or nuclear—could get a rocket out of that gravity well.

We settle into synchronous orbit, transmit a hello, append our files on materials engineering, and set about printing a space elevator.

It’s going to be a long first contact.

#MicroFiction

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When I am circumference,
the circular outline
of the person
I think I need
to be,

you become my radius,
the shortest line
from the center
of myself,
to me

#smallpoems for #mastoprompt

Playing around with one of my birthday presents and filling this beautiful #Pilot MR3 #FountainPen with Iroshizuku Yu-Yake sunset orange ink which matches it perfectly. And then posing it with a Paperblanks book that was also part of my birthday gift.

Now to actually write something worthwhile.

So much braiding of hemp. I hope to have these and more posted this week or next. #handmade #halloween #bohojewelry #ceremics #surlyramics Anyone else out there working on anything cool?