Save Me Joe Louis

...like spoons dropping in kitchens:
enough to make someone look up,
not enough to get them moving.
The ref's just glad it isn't him

trying to stand, shading his face
like he's coming out of the movies
into winter sun, shock of the world
made real again...


Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Poetry Daily

Golden Sunto(detail)
Kikuchi Yosai, Meiji era, 1878
Japanese Art
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Base for mandala offering used in Tibetan Buddhist rituals
Ming dynasty, early 15th centuryto(detail)
Chinese Art
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Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Smithsonian

A FIELD GUIDE TO COMMON TEXAS INSECTS
Texas A&M University