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Viral (Philip Larkin: Myxomatosis)
.Releasing the Myxoma Virus for Rabbits. Rabbits were introduced to Australia by early European settlers, and by the 20th century has become a plague. They ravaged the country, destroying pastures,...
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Pablo Neruda: I want to talk with the pigs
.Alte Schweinerasse im Hessenpark der Waldweide: photo by Karsten11, 1 May 2009 What do pigs make of the dawn?They lack canticles, but they sustain it, With their great pink bodies,With their hard...
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Philip Larkin: The Beats: A Few Simple Words
. "One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple." -- #Jack Kerouac: image by Kam Bain @kam_bain, 15 October 2013Now one must clear one’s mind of cant and admit, firstly, that everyone...
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Wislawa Szymborska: Hatred (It almost makes you have to look away)
.St John Altarpiece (detail): Rogier van der Weyden, 1455-60, oil on oak panel (Staatliche Museen, Berlin)See how efficient it still is,how it keeps itself in shape --our century's hatred.How easily it...
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Wharf
Biohazard drum out front of apartment complex. A nurse who lived here tested positive for #ebola: image via Chris Graczyk 13@PhotogChris, 12 October 2014Under the streetlight, a hazebugs aswirlsouls...
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Stretching It
.Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) stretching in his enclosure, Zurich Zoo: photo by Tamako the Tiger, 1 November 2013When you are having a philosophical conversation with someone and they are not able to think...
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After the Whirlwind
Parkour In Gaza War Zone: image via Dr. Belal Dabour - Gaza @Belalmd12, 3 October 2014School girls do morning exercises in their damaged school during the first day of school in #Gaza @ahmedrawhi1:...
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Rainer Maria Rilke: Orpheus. Eurydike. Hermes -- she was already lost
.The daughter of an Ebola victim grieves, Monrovia, Liberia: photo by Marcos DiPaola / Nur Photo / Rex via The Guardian, 16 October 2014Sie war schon aufgelöst wie langes Haar und hingegeben wie...
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Out of Africa: Gorilla Happiness, while there's still time
 Western Lowland Gorilla brothers Kesho and Alf are reunited at Longleat Safari Park, Wiltshire, after three years apart. Native to central Africa, Western Lowland Gorillas are threatened by hunting...
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Sophocles: Oedipus the King: On the shore of the god of evening (The chorus...
.#Ebola what get when 2b people live on < $2/day, wantonly destroy #rainforest as eat bushmeat, nations wage perma-war: image via Rainforest News @El_Rainforest, 19 October 2014ChorusNow our...
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Is not the night restless for them?
.Kofr Qadom, West Bank. A Palestinian boy throws stones at an armoured wheel loader of the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) during clashes following a protest against the nearby Jewish settlement of...
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Scale
.scale: photo by erin w, from photographs from a white space, 25 October 2012entering winter, narrowingscale -- strait is the gatethe light a notch slenderaperture carved out of darknow coming,...
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A New Life
.Melilla, Morocco. African migrants sit atop a border fence as Spanish civil guard officers in riot gear try to turn them back during an attempt to cross into Spanish territories: photo by Jesus Blasco...
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Barry Taylor: Listen Closely
.  Rain (27): photo by Abbas Kiarostami, 2007 (Purdy Hicks Gallery, London)I sit on a cold stone,tired, and watch her walk – ‘just a short way’ – on, between leafless trees,down the narrowing linesof...
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The Forgotten
.A Palestinian man walks through a neighbourhood destroyed during the 50-day Israeli offensive in Gaza: photo by Mahmud Hams/AFP via The Guardian, 25 October 2014When all's takenand nothing given on...
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Elephant Memories
.An orphaned baby elephant basks in a mud puddle at the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage in the national park of Nairobi, Kenya: photo by Goran Tomasevic/Reuters via The Guardian, 25 October...
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Relocation (the new ABCs)
.Navotas, Philippines. A woman reads a book outside her house, located on top of a cemetery: photo by Ezra Acayan / NurPhoto / REX via The Guardian, 28 October 2014You might be able to move upstairs...
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Red State Scream Preview (A Period Haunting)
.A bleak living room complete with an old television set and armchair, abandoned house, Ohio: photo by Jonny Joo via The Guardian, 17 October 2014No, man, it's cool, really, No worries. Still only top...
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Tilt
. A Free Syrian Army fighter takes up position as he points his weapon through a hole in a bedroom wall in Deir al-Zor, eastern Syria. A reminder of ordinary daily life before the civil war: photo by...
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No one to rock the cradle (Nazim Hikmet: You must live with great...
. A cradle left behind by Syrian Kurdish refugees lies at the border near Suruc. Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkish troops could be used to help establish a secure zone in Syria, if...
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