Not sure whether to post it...

Long.

Gradually slipping sideways through days, I tiptoe between seconds, holding my breath. A step wrong, a hand held wrong, a voice pitched just off and everything, everything is going to break. There's an elemental inside my bones and it's kicking relentlessly, determined to get out. I know, I tell it. I am searching for a place where you are safe. I have to shrug out of the clock to do this. Breathe at the edges of things.
Daylight spreads gradually and I take fleeting moments of morning to call the light. I need to stop the flood, I say. I need to keep the dam intact. I can hear the outlines around me. I feel like I can hear it when they jangle because of me but I don't know.
Gradually I can unfold. Not all at once, and careful at first. To stretch, kneel, lift, stay upright. It's not just a thing of slowness but of cadence. Balance. Often, quiet.
When the sun recedes I call the night. I need to keep it safe, I say. The first thing it's going to do is hurtle headlong in panic, get hurt and who knows who else. I need stillness and a cloak. Slow at first. Llooking around, catching the edge of the light.
Timelyssly twilight greets me, our old friend, one who gave us shelter and freedom, the last environment we could see clearly in, many of us live there as much as we can, praise it and make art for it. Give this one room to run, I ask it. The point I circle back to, the only home for someone who doesn't know what home is. I have held on too long and I was trying to carry you from the cliff you'd been stranded on and only scared you in the process. And the one left I could think to ask was
You deserved more than this, more than tumbling into a tangle of rusty metal, for more than someone squeezing the life out of you, for more than a silent terrified end curled in a ball somewhere, forgotten.
#MastoPrompt #gradual

Moving forward
Step by step
#Gradual progress
The best kind

#MastoPrompt #SmallPoems #Poetry

Gradual hope

People, step by step,
Understand that they cannot
escape climate change

Mankind, soon or late
Will learn to communicate
About this crisis

Humans, without doubt
Will face their feelings of fear
And find better ways

Survival, of course
Has a new dimension now
But we will face it.

#MastoPrompt #gradual #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDiary #Poetry #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

“The way is certainly both short and steep, / However #gradual it looks from here; / Look if you like, but you will have to leap.”

W.H. Auden #MastoPrompt

This quote opens #RussellHoban 's children's novel of universal appeal #theMouseAndHisChild.

change is gradual
just visible after years
the shock comes too late

#MastoPrompt - #gradual
#haiku
#senryu
#smallpoems
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity

@tanweerdar

@poetry

#Gradual|ly, I move to higher grounds. From afar, hell looks like a #glen. For a moment, I #riddle, could I have controlled its #chaos? Then, my inner #child takes my hand and walks me to the #flower|ing field ... on.

#MastoPrompt #vssnature #rise365 #brknshards #whistpr #vss365
#WritingCommunity

change can take its time
with a gradual shifting
of all the senses

#haiku #575 #writing #WritingCommunity #poetry #MastoPrompt #gradual

@tanweerdar

The #MastoPrompt for Thursday 29th June 2023 is:

#gradual

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories

#Shapella #underwent a #gradual staging- and phasing-in of the #implementation - ParkHealth Notes | OpenSea https://opensea.io/assets/matic/0x2953399124f0cbb46d2cbacd8a89cf0599974963/46316387645623418400861574497267573792497807413262795597612356731376471375873

#Shapella #underwent a #gradual staging- and phasing-in of the #implementation - ParkHealth Notes https://opensea.io/assets/matic/0x2953399124f0cbb46d2cbacd8a89cf0599974963/46316387645623418400861574497267573792497807413262795597612356731376471375873

#gradual : advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another

- French: graduel

- Italian: graduale

- Portuguese: gradual

- Spanish: gradual

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#Gradual
#guardrail

On St Stephen's feast day, St Edith Stein pauses to write to a former student; she explains the vocation “to suffer with Christ and thereby to cooperate with him in his work of salvation.”

Read her letter:
http://carmelitequotes.blog/2022/12/25/edith-26dec32/

#StEdithStein #StStephen #deacon #martyr #manuscript #illumination #art #Italian #gradual #Catholic #Carmelite #quotes

#gradual : advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another

- French: graduel

- Italian: graduale

- Portuguese: gradual

- Spanish: gradual

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@ThermiteBeGiants great example of #gradual #change!

RT @BlaiVidiella
@RSocPublishing @IBE_Barcelona @Cambridge_Uni @UTKnoxville @TAMUSanAntonio If you are interested in this work entitled "A cultural #evolutionary theory that explains both #gradual and #punctuated change", you can read our threads at:
@svalver: https://twitter.com/svalver/status/1592810747050229760?s=20&t=-t0USAZv0Rr8-MaY7asOLQ
@BlaiVidiella : https://twitter.com/BlaiVidiella/status/1592930888865939456?s=20&t=-t0USAZv0Rr8-MaY7asOLQ

Just watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmF7HpU_-9k&list=LL&index=1&t=1001s and I'm extremely tempted to make Rust gradual using linters.

For example, the "rust for newbs" linter can notice you wrote a struct that holds references and go "Take it easy, that's advanced! You'll have a bad time. Consider owning the thing or using Rc/Arc. Clone if you need to."

Thoughts? #rust #gradual-programming