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Bertolt Brecht: Children of the Future
. Arson terror suspect 23-year-old ultra-orthodox activist Meir Ettinger detained by Israel in crackdown on terror cells appears at Nazareth Magistrates Court: photo by Nir Kafri/EPA via Vice News, 5...
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Last Train to Europe
.SERBIA, BELGRADE : Migrants sleep on a train heading north from Nis to Belgrade, early on 18 July 2015. Illegal immigrants cross Serbia on their way to other European countries as it has land access...
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Dog Days in the Human Zoo
. Demonstrators, marking the one-year anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown, march along West Florrisant Street in Ferguson, Missouri. There are reports that two people were shot when gun fire...
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Nâzim Hikmet Ran: Things I Didn't Know I Loved (on the Prague-Berlin train)
.Night train, Prague: photo by Daniel Jurena, 22 January 2014it's 1962 March 28thI'm sitting by the window on the Prague-Berlin train night is fallingI never knew I likednight descending like a tired...
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In the Dark
. Midnight migrants, a night time journey on the waves. Migrants aboard a dinghy sail off for the Greek island of Kos from the southern Turkish coastal town of Bodrum. Photo by Osman Orsal: image via...
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Haze
.SF Ocean Beach sunset with smoke: image via NWSBayArea @NWSBayArea, 15 August 2015Haze of smoke from the fires to the north streaming down upon a hot wind trapping the routine accumulation of vehicle...
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Wislawa Szymborska: Distraction
.Portrait of Dr. Johannes Cuspinian (detail): Lucas Cranach the Elder, c. 1502 (Oskar Reinhart Collection, Winterthur)I misbehaved in the cosmos yesterday. I lived around the clock without...
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Wislawa Szymborska: Tarsier
.Tarsier, Bohol Island Sanctuary, The Philippines: photo by Bonnie Stewart, 2015: image via Aar Kay @pictureoftheday, 8 July 2015I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son,the grandson and great-grandson of...
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John Keats: La belle dame sans merci ("The sedge has withered from the...
.Smoke from the Northern California wildfires and other major wildfires across the Western U.S. fill the horizon as the sun sets over Utah Lake and Provo. The U.S. Army has been asked to send 200...
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Turbulence and Serenity: van Gogh at Auxers, June-July 1890: Last Strokes
.I...Tree RootsTree Roots: Vincent van Gogh, Auvers-sur-Oise, July 1890, oil on canvas, 50.3 x 100.1 cm (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam)Van Gogh had already made several drawings of tree roots in The Hague...
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What I Did on My Summer Vacation
.A homeless man sleeps beside a wall covered with movie posters in Los Angeles [photo: Frederic J. Brown]: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 21 July 2015The sun sets behind the minaret of a...
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Negativland: No Other Possibility ("...dying is easy, comedy is hard")
.RIP radio master Don Joyce #negativland #KPFA @kpfa: image via Derk Richardson @Derk Richardson, 23 July 2015DON: Well, dying is easy, comedy is hard. That 19th Century actor's death bed confession...
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"Everything is sighing" (Joseph Ceravolo: Come Clean)
.Young men clean second-hand shoes to sell them in a market in Bujumbura on Friday. Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza is set to win a controversial third term in office: photo by Phil Moore/AFP, 24...
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Josephine Miles: Saving the Bay
. [Looking westward from Berkeley hills, early evening]: photo by Film&PhotoArchivist, 19 May 2015Apart from branches in courtyards and small stones,The countryside is beyond me.I can go along...
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Underground
.A homeless person sleeps back dropped by wallpaper of New York city on the windows of a casino near the main railway station during a police raid in Bucharest, Romania. Police in Romania have searched...
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Cecil the Lion, Meet Man the Killer
.Only a monster could kill such a majestic beautiful animal we share this world with. RIP #CecilTheLion: image via mike @WhiskeySoured, 28 July 2015The hunter who killed Cecil the Lion doesn't deserve...
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Red Shuttleworth: Three Poems from the Bone-Dry West
. Photo by Red Shuttleworth, 8 July 2015Before the Hand ofSpilled beer and Jesus-platitudes,road-twisted cheap-brass rodeo trophy buckle...And the pickup rattles... fencing tools and crushed beer...
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Tom Raworth: Shadows
.Untitled (Black on Gray): Mark Rothko (1903-1970), 1970: photo by ekenitr, 1 March 2015 once upon a time is no more in the dark each page seems written upon light dawns a high ceiling is not wasted...
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Fire Season
. #RockyFire east of Clear Lake is now 27,000 acres & 5% contained. Hwy 16 now closed between Hwy 20 & Yolo County Line: image via CAL FIRE PIO Berlant @CALFIRE_PIO, 1 August 2015Night Sky:...
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Ask the Goats
.Two stranded dogs on the roof of a flooded building in Kale township, Myanmar: photo by Lynn Bo Bo/EPA, 3 August 2015Locals use makeshift raft and rubber inner tube as a means of getting through...
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