Under American Falls
.Builders install a deck at the popular Cave of the Winds attraction at Niagara Falls State Park, in Niagara Falls, New York. Construction is nearly finished on this year’s deck building at the base of...
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. A child and a man sit on the tracks in front of Greek policemen in riot gear during a protest at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece: photo by Gregorio Borgia/AP, 5 May 2016A child and...
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.Halloween, North Beach, early 1970s: photo by Mr Flikker, c 1975I was knocking around San Francisco in the 1970's looking for a way to make a few bucks. A friend, a jazz saxophone player, who drove a...
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.Stunning Reuters image of the red glow of the Canada wild fire underneath the northern lights #FortMcMurray: image via Julia Macfarlane Verified account @juliamacfarlane, 7 May 2016 Alberta,...
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.Melhoras meu mano @StephenCurry30 Os grandes desafios nunca são fácil! #VamoQVamo: image via Leandro Barbosa @TheBlurBarbosa, 25 March 2016 Steph Curry 1st 3 quarters: 0-9 from 3-pt range, 13 Pts....
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.Two Palestinian schoolboys walk past a graffiti painted on a wall of the United Nations school of Beit Hanun, in the northern Gaza Strip: photo by Thomas Coex/AFP, 9 May 2016Two Palestinian schoolboys...
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.A Syrian woman cooks at a refugee camp on the northern Greek border point of Idomeni: photo by Petros Giannakouris / AP, 11 May 2016 The feeling that life is essentially inadequate to the human...
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. A competitor walks on tightrope during a performance in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China: photo by China Daily / Reuters, 7 May 2016 that one last transit of mercuryon the night of a yellow moona...
View ArticleThomas Wyatt: in Spayn (The ambassador revoked from his post returns to the...
.James Massey of Piper’s Model Makers cleans the City of London’s official 1:500th scale architectural model of central London, which has gone on public display at the City Centre gallery, London:...
View ArticleWallace Stevens: Seventy Years Later, from The Rock ("It is an illusion that...
.A man stands in a building earmarked for demolition in the Mathare neighbourhood of Nairobi, Kenya. Kenya’s authorities tore down a badly built residential block in the poor Nairobi district on...
View ArticleWallace Stevens: Forms of the Rock in a Night-Hymn
.A police car explodes after being set on fire during an unauthorized counter-demonstration against police violence today in Paris, as Police across France demonstrate today against the “anti-cop...
View Article"But it was in vain that I lingered beside the hawthorns"
. Marine life on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland. Australia's Great Barrier Reef could be beyond saving in five years without “now or never” funding to improve water quality as climate change...
View ArticleWallace Stevens: The Poem as Icon
UNCERTAIN OUTLOOK: In the English town of Hastings, like many other places in Britain, residents have mixed views on whether to remain in the European Union or not. Above, some people on the Hastings...
View ArticleWallace Stevens: The World As Meditation
.In the Room: Edouard Vuillard, 1899, oil on cardboard, 52 x 79 cm (The Hermitage, St. Petersburg) Is it Ulysses that approaches from the east, The interminable adventurer? The trees are mended. That...
View ArticleLets have ice cream at the junkyard / Wallace Stevens: Madame La Fleurie
.The axe murderer next door [Shooting Newton District, Los Angeles, California]: photo by michaelj1998, 13 May 2016Lets have ice cream at the junkyardLets go for a ride on one of those poniesLets go...
View ArticleWallace Stevens: Questions Are Remarks (“Mother, my mother, who are you”)
.A boy wears women's shoes as he balances with donated tea on a beam placed in the mud at the northern Greek border station of Idomeni. Bad weather returned after a brief pause and conditions in the...
View ArticleStevie Smith: "I am a Child of this World" / The rout of the wandering...
.A boy sits on a bus as he waits to be transferred to a reception centre during an evacuation operation by Greek police forces of the makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the village of...
View ArticleSome May Escape By Night: Stevie Smith: To Carry the Child / Wallace Stevens:...
.A group of teenage migrants heading to England hide from the police in high grass near #Calais By @maryaturner: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 14 May 2016 Migrant boat with over 500 on...
View ArticleIn Trumplandia: A Mask of Power (Joseph Ceravolo: What chemicals have we...
.An Orange County sheriff keeps an eye on demonstrators ahead of a speech from US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Anaheim, California: photo by Mike Blake / Reuters, 26 May 2016Joseph...
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.Trois Couleurs: image via Agence France-Presse Verified account @afpfr, 27 May 2016libertiesthe meek imploring eyesof the side porch night catshining in the darka sudden salvoexplosions off somewhere...
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