{"id":6010,"date":"2026-04-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/?p=6010"},"modified":"2026-04-01T23:46:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:46:01","slug":"winding-inward-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/winding-inward-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Winding Inward: Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-after the image by Paola Corso<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><br>If you are to move at all, <br>stay still, <br>allow nothing <br>but breath<br>to step down <br>and around the self,<br><br>syllables that don\u2019t <br>need connections to words<br>descending spirals <br>of stairs on their own <br>accord. If you are to speak <br><br>at all,<br>let voice cascade<br>toward empty stairwells<br>where no echo dwells.<br><br>Let thought whirl in on itself<br>till it whispers God<br><br>as final landing.<br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-after the image by Paola Corso If you are to move at all, stay still, allow nothing but breathto step down and around the self,syllables that don\u2019t need connections to wordsdescending spirals of stairs on their own accord. If you are to speak at all,let voice cascadetoward empty stairwellswhere no echo dwells.Let thought whirl in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"art_contributors":[],"literary_contributors":[460],"class_list":["post-6010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","literary_contributors-maddox-marjorie"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Winding-Prayers-Picture.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6010"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6015,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010\/revisions\/6015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6010"},{"taxonomy":"art_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/art_contributors?post=6010"},{"taxonomy":"literary_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_contributors?post=6010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}