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Fleeing Aleppo / Joseph Ceravolo: O carrion, o carrion
.Life does not resemble life [Aleppo]: image by baraa al halabi @baraaalhalabi, 24 October 2015the Syrian tragedy and the fall of Europe and the westA Syrian boy is comforted amid the rubble on...
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The battle for Aleppo / animal rescue
.  Prefabricated metal homes at the Azraq camp for Syrian refugees in northern Jordan last month. Jordanian officials estimate that there are 1.4 million Syrians in the country.: photo by Khalil...
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Jorge Luis Borges: Jactancia de quietud
.Refugees in a rubber boat off Lesvos: image via MSF Sea @MSF_Sea, 8 February 2016  Escrituras de luz embisten la sombra, más prodigiosas que meteoros.La alta ciudad inconocible arrecia sobre el...
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Wallace Stevens: The Plain Sense of Things
.A migrant, identified as 20-year old Pelen Hussein from Syria, stands on top of a capsized boat as he waits to be rescued by members of Turkish Coast Guard Air Command in the Aegean Sea off the waters...
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Malheur: Refuge / an end to the shofars
No sign of lawyers, lawmakers or clergy expected to take part in #OregonStandoff surrender: image via Kyle Iboshi @Kyle Iboshi, 11 February 2016Outside courthouse, Wilson Freimuth plans to use his...
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Giuseppe Ungaretti: Lontano / Reflections in a Puddle
 .A Syrian civil defense worker led an injured man to safety after airstrikes in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria: photo by Amer Almohibany/Agence France-Presse,...
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Rowing Towards the Holy Well of the Insane on St Valentine's Day
.Michael's Lane, Dublin City. St Michael's lane close to Christ Church was a particularly poverty-stricken area, with three or four families to each house in the lane. The main profession (as seemingly...
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a soul of winter
.A destroyed MSF-supported hospital in Maarat al-Noaman in Idlib Province, Syria, on Monday, after it was hit by airstrikes: photo by Sam Taylor/Doctors Without Borders, via European Pressphoto Agency,...
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Ted Berrigan: Sonnet XXXVI, Personal Poem #9 and History: What's Uijeongbu...
A US soldier wears a gas mask during a competition to test individual skills at a US Army base in Uijeongbu, north of Seoul, on Wednesday. The goal of the competition is to foster esprit de corps...
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Alun Lewis: Raiders' Dawn
.Russian cadets rest in the dance hall at the Presidential Cadet School of the Internal Troops of Russia in Moscow, an institution created by President Vladimir V. Putin: photo by Sergei...
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Ugandan Elections: Boxed Out / Joseph Ceravolo: where is the guide, O Hermes
.Second day of voting in chaotic Uganda election: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 19 February 2016 A police officer sprays tear gas on a protester apprehended on Day 2 of Uganda's elections @AFP...
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Walter de La Mare: Napoleon: ideological ascendancy in the least rational...
Donald Trump after his big victory Saturday night. But he will now face a less divided mainstream field: photo by Jim Wilson/The New York Times, 20 February 2016Â Walter de La Mare: Napoleon'What is the...
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Broken Boats / Bertolt Brecht: In Times of Extreme Persecution
.#UPDATE: Twin car bombs kill at least 46 in Syria's Homs as truce efforts flounder #Homs: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 21 February 2016Bertolt Brecht: In Times of Extreme PersecutionOnce you’ve...
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Mahmoud Darwish: Psalm 9 ("O rose beyond the reach of time and of the...
.Occupation, Colonialism and Apartheid in Israel – A Photo Essay by Mats Svensson#Palestine #EndTheOccupation: image via free falling upwards @philipgeany, 17 February 2016Mahmoud Darwish: Psalm 9O...
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Robert Creeley: Was
.Pascal Wehrlein of Germany, a Formula One racecar driver, drove during winter testing at Circuit de Catalunya in Montmeló, Spain: photo by Dan Istitene via The New York Times, 23 February 2016 Say Mr....
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Dumbo Rampant: Great Moments in the Rapidly Accelerating Devolution of Murica
.Attendees cheered after hearing the Nevada caucus results at Donald J. Trump’s watch party in Las Vegas on Tuesday night: photo by Ruth Fremson/The New York Times, 23 February 2016 The moment when...
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Keeping an eye on the ball in Jupiter
.A Palestinian man uses a rope to climb over a section of Israel’s controversial separation barrier that separates the West Bank city of al-Ram from east Jerusalem: photo by Thomas Coex/AFP, 25...
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Friedrich Hölderlin: Menschenbeifall / The Approval of Men
Chris Christie endorses Donald Trump for president on Friday in Fort Worth, Texas: photo by Mike Stone/Reuters, 26 February 2016 Friedrich Hölderlin: Menschenbeifall Ist nicht heilig mein Herz,...
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the worst people in the world
. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, arriving for the ceremony in 2012: photo by Monica Almeida/The New York TimesAfter luncheon the snow stopped, and the afternoon turned out intensely cold but bright and...
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Trumplandia: A Vision
.Paramedics tend to a protester who was stabbed during the KKK rally in Anaheim. Many people at the park were demanding to know why police did not have a larger presence at the scene before the...
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