The strange haunting song of Bad Canary; or how not to spend your summer...
.Canary in a Coal Mine. "Canaries were once used in coal mining as an early warning system. Toxic gases such as carbon monoxide and methane in the mine would kill the bird bfore affecting the miners....
View ArticleVachel Lindsay: The Little Turtle: A Recitation for Martha Wakefield, Three...
. Turtle 5, Alameda, California: photo by orientalizing, 18 April 2014There was a little turtle. He lived in a box. He swam in a puddle. He climbed on the rocks. He snapped at a mosquito. He snapped at...
View ArticlePhilip Whalen: Alleyway
.The Abandoned Children of Bucharest. Walking back from a neighbor's house the other day, I passed this disturbing scene. What's even more peculiar is that on the way to my neighbor's house, there was...
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.@KJVShow @kevinrolston pulling the strings on #JasonBigfoot #puppetmaster #jbirdinheels: image via Andrew Levine @ Andrew Levine5, 29 May 2015Puppetmaster: Shifting Sands in MacauThe Venetian -– US...
View ArticleA Recursive Nightmare
.A Palestinian Bedouin girl drinks from a water tank outside her family’s tent near the West Bank town of Tubas in the Jordan Valley on 6 May. Besieged Palestinian communities in the Jordan Valley have...
View ArticleSamuel Beckett: Cascando
.Sono Osato in Francesca da Rimini costume, sometime in 1940: photographer unknown (Geoffrey Ingram collection of ballet photographs from the Ballets Russes Australian tour, 1936-1940, National Library...
View ArticleThe Tunnel
. Tunnel traffic. Northbrae tunnel, Berkeley: photo by TJ Gehling, 20 December 2013Adolescent faun with soft unformed hornswandering back yards and side paths for a drink mother having lately...
View ArticleRobert Creeley: Love
.In the Forest of Fontainbleu: Camille Corot (1796-1875), c. 1860-65, oil on canvas, 46 x 59 cm (National Gallery of Art, Washington)Nothing is without place,in mind, in physical apprehension -- or if...
View ArticleFrancis and the Miracle of the Spring
How will people be displaced by #climatechange?: image via World Economic Forum @wef, 13 June 2015#PopeFrancis Condemns Multinational Corporations for Choosing Profit Over Ppl #UniteBlue: image via...
View ArticleA streak of rust (Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore: Gray Fox)
.A streak of rust on deserted stairs caught my eye whilst heading home last night. #urbanfox: image via Sophie Darlington @S_Darlington, 6 April 2014 Hackney, LondonDaniel Abdal-Hayy Moore: Gray Fox...
View ArticleLemur lost -- last redoubt (Wislawa Szymborska: Consolation)
.The largest living lemur, the large-bodied Indri (Indri indri) of Magagascar's rainforest, faces imminent extinction, according to the latest global assessment of at-risk species by the IUCN: photo by...
View ArticleAt fawning time
.Black-tailed deer in the Blake Garden, Kensington, Calfornia. Two in the open and one behind the tree.: photo by TJ Gehling, 2 February 2013she will stay close to homeunless drivenby needto browse...
View ArticleDon't Look Back (Wislawa Szymborska: Lot's Wife)
.Woman Lamenting by a Burning City: Jan Swart van Groningen, 1550-55, pen in black, brush in brown, 360 x 283 mm (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)They say I looked back out of curiosity.But I could have had...
View ArticleAustin Granger: In a wide wilderness, a far cry / Robert Creeley: Moral
. Path, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 21 May 2015Path, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 21 May 2015Path, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 21 May 2015MoralNow the inevitable As in tales of woe The...
View ArticleThomas Hardy: Waiting Both
.[Untitled, Indian Brook, Clarksburg, Ontario]: photo by John Brownlow, 14 April 2006A star looks down at me,And says: “Here I and youStand, each in our degree:What do you mean to do, --Mean to do?”I...
View ArticleJim Dine: Murder (for Tom Raworth)
.Passage Vivienne, Paris: photo by Pierre Paqueton, 22 February 2015HopeLost hopewith youand young eyesthat are blackwith hopelast hopeA ghoststeps out ofPassage VivienneLower thatRifle MisterThe smell...
View ArticleTightly Protected
.Gun shop advertisement affixed to front page of Charleston, South Carolina Post and Courier the day after a racially-motivated massacre in which nine people were shot dead at a church in the city. The...
View ArticleThe Last Rhodesian Barbeque
.website theme image via The Last Rhodesian, 2015The Last Rhodesian: A manifesto by Dylann Storm Roof, 17 June 2015.......I was not raised in a racist home or environment. Living in the South, almost...
View ArticleIn a broken doll's eyes: vulnerability and abandonment in the American city:...
.Residents of Mulky Square, a low-income neighborhood on the city's west side, face large scale displacement by a new interstate highway (I-635). Many houses have been demolished, others stand empty....
View ArticleFaces in the sky (Mahmoud Darwish: I'm from there)
.Faces in the sky ... #clouds & #sky: image via Monica M. Singer @MonicaMSinger67, 26 June 2015 Sky: photo by Seth Ilys, 2004Palestinians climbing the Israeli apartheid wall to pray the first...
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