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Whale Song
.A 42-foot fin whale is stuck on Stinson Beach, Monday, August 19, 2013. The whale was alive when discovered early in the morning, but died before it could be moved to safety: photo by Frankie...
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A Pool in Palestine
.Industrialized port area, Corpus Christi, Texas: photo by Marc St. Gil for the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica Project, November 1972 (US National Archives)She hears, upon that water...
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I Am Alive (Bounded by Forest)
. Head of the giant "Silver Spade" coal shovel owned by the Hanna Coal Company dwarfs some trees as the machine scoops coal from a trench. Cadiz, Ohio: photo by Erik Calonius for the Environmental...
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Rim of Fire
. Trees burn close to City of Berkeley's Toulumne Family Camp near Groveland, California as the Rim Fire spreads: photo by Noah Berger/EPA via USA Today, 23 August 2013John Muir: from John of the...
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Cuidado (Robinson Jeffers: Fire on the Hills)
.View from UH-60 Black Hawk belonging to California Army National Guard 1-140th Aviation Battalion at the Rim Fire near Yosemite: photo by Master Sgt. Julie Avery, California National Guard, 22 August...
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Marzanna Bogumila Kielar: Four Poems
.Zalew Wislany, Warmia, Poland: photo by LeszekZadio, 19 June 200919121.Memory, allegedly birth, always.................................(its rocky spiresand dune-echoes); I think of us on the ferry,...
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Red Shuttleworth: Summer Chromatograph: 68
.The ice cream truck is coming... or is it?(Jeddah): photo by Hany Soliman, 7 January 2010Your new Schwan's rural ice cream delivery driveris sullen-lost. Or, a few tires blown on scab rockwhere...
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Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore: Baseball Stadium Epiphany
.Crowd (Phillies game): photo by Mike Ashley (jacreative), 29 May 2007At the moment I entered the baseball stadiuma huge crowd ovation went upand I found myself imagining it was for meand my latest...
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W. B. Yeats: The Lake Isle of Innisfree (A Poetry Comic by Nora Sawyer)
.Yeats' Lake Isle of Innisfree: a poetry comic by Nora Sawyer, from Nora Sawyer, 25 August 2013Lough Gill, County Sligo, Ireland: photochrome view, c. 1900; image by Snapshots of the Past, 8 January...
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Flann O'Brien: Nocturnal Experiments
.Drawing of Fan Moved by Mechanism: Department of State, Patent Office, 27 November 1830(Cartographic and Architectural Records Section, US National Archives)Not excepting even the credulous Kraus (see...
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Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: Studying the Language
.Beehive huts, Dingle Peninsula, Kerry. The hillside along the Slea Head Drive in the townland of Fahan is littered with Clocháns, or Beehive Huts. At one stage there were over 400 of these drystone,...
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Prophets Agree On One Thing (Just the Center Slices)
.De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. advertisement for diamonds: Salvador Dali, Life, 30 November 1953 (Gallery of Graphic Design)De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. advertisement for diamonds: Miguel...
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Red Shuttleworth: Summer Chromatograph: 84 (Summer Disappears in a Dust-Devil...
.Dust Devil near Moses Lake, Washington: photo by Tonya Stinson (tonitunes), 8 September 2007Untitled, Moses Lake, Washington: photo by Red Shuttleworth, 8 September 2013Cooler mornings, my thinning...
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Dust Devil Days
.Dust devil lines in the sands of Mars, as seen by Mars High Resolution Imaging Experiment at Active Curve Gully: photo by NASA Marshall Space Center, 12 July 2012That hugest of clumps of soil loads me...
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Robinson Jeffers: Hurt Hawks
.Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis): photo by Alan D. Wilson, 2003I The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder, The wing trails like a banner in defeat, No more to use the sky...
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Red Shuttleworth: Autumn Chronograph: 15
.Horse spirit (Oostvaardersplassen Preserve, the Netherlands): photo by Jim Brandenburg, from Masters of Nature Photography, Natural History Museum, 2010(via The Guardian 5 September 2013) The heart...
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"Like a filter on a faucet...": John Ashbery: Flow Chart / Edward Burtynsky:...
.Xiaolangdi Dam #1, Yellow River, Henan Province, China 2011: photo by Edward Burtynsky, from Edward Burtynsky: Water, 2013 (Edward Burtynsky Photographic Works)Love that lasts a minute like a filter...
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Hell Goes Round and Round
.Walkway (under the freeway, Oakland): photo by efo, 30 June 2013Elsewhere, the author wrote: 'Joe had been explaining things in the meantime. He said it was again the beginning of the unfinished, the...
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Horace McCoy: I Should Have Stayed Home
.Circus sideshow billboards, Santa Monica, California: photo by Walker Evans, August-September 1967 (Walker Evans Archive/Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)Feeling the way I did, alone and...
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Frank O'Hara: Women / Guy Pène du Bois: Promenade
.Promenade: Guy Pène du Bois (1884-1958), 1935, oil on canvas, 36 1/2 x 29 1/4 ins. (Indianapolis Museum of Art)They sit on the stairs and cry.They hear accidents a week away screaming "Pierrot...
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