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

From Colditz Castle and Grounds:

1. French Lieutenant Alain Le Ray escaped April 11, 1941. He hid in a terrace house in a park during a game of soccer. First successful Colditz escapee and first to reach neutral Switzerland.
2. French Lieutenant René Collin escaped May 31, 1941. He climbed into the rafters of a pavilion during exercise, hid there until dark and slipped away. Made it back to France.
3. French Lieutenant Pierre Mairesse Lebrun escaped July 2, 1941. He was captured trying Collin's method. Later vaulted over a wire in the park with the help of an associate. He reached Switzerland in eight days on a stolen bicycle.
4. Dutch Lieutenant Francis Steinmetz escaped August 15, 1941. He hid under a manhole cover in the exercise enclosure, emerged after nightfall, took a train to Gottmadingen, and reached Switzerland in three days.
5. Dutch Lieutenant E. Hans Larive also escaped August 15, 1941 with Steinmetz
6. Dutch Major C. Giebel escaped September 20, 1941 using the same method as Steinmetz.
7. Dutch Lieutenant O. L. Drjiber escaped September 20, 1941 with Giebel.
8. British Lieutenant Airey M. S. Neave escaped January 5, 1942. Crawled through a hole in a camp theater (after a prisoner performance) to a guardhouse and marched out dressed as a German officer. He reached Switzerland two days later. Neave later joined MI9.
9. Dutch Lieutenant Anthony P. Luteyn escaped January 5, 1942 with Neave.
10. British Lieutenant H. N. Fowler escaped September 9, 1942. Slipped with four others through a guard office and a storeroom dressed as German officers and Polish orderlies. Only he and van Doorninck reached Switzerland.

Colditz Castle
Wikipedia featured article

Joyce Carol Oates interviewd by Michael Krasny

Project Dogwaffle version 1.2
Project Dogwaffle

"This remarkable picture may have been reproduced before, but I make no apology for showing it here. The impressive array of tubas belong to at least two acoustic locators mounted on 4-wheel carriages."

Classical guitarist Masao Tanibe live at the Kennedy Center's Millenium Stage - April 10, 2005
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Eden "Little Boogaloo" Brent and Abie "Boogaloo" Ames live at the Kennedy Center's Millenium Stage - July 27, 2000

Eden Brent
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Lalo Guerrero:

Tin Marin de do Pingue (sound sample)- Frijole Boogie

World's Oldest Pachuco

Ben Peterson
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Ratio 3 "bringing vastness to the mind"
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link path Rajkamal Kahlon
under the fire star

endearing self-aggrandizement by the Leif Parsons identity
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barista

Color Vision and Art
A feast of presentation and informative skill
WebExhibits
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link path - Investigating Giovanni Bellini's Feast of The Gods
thru Artcyclopedia's MasterScans (including True Size!)
which is an inspirational delight

That Been to Me My Lives Light and Saviour

...blare of sun
after years uncounted, and synesthesia of it and sound,
the junco's chirp and then the jay's torn caw...


Susan Wheeler
Poetry Today 07.Apr.05

Hut Hurt Hat Heart
(or Hut Hut Hut Hut)

Lilah Hegnauer/Verse Daily

Vigna-Maru tells google, and the world, it's about time

It is possible will measure by force with youth

Kyrgyz on summer pastures.
From a Russian site devoted to the Taigan, the Kirghiz Borzoi.
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The Borzoi - the Psovaya Borzaya or long-haired sighthound, and the Hortaya Borzaya or Chortaj - the short-haired sighthound, are of plausibly Scythian descent.
The Scythians, or their direct ancestors, could have been the first culture to ride the domesticated horse.
Sighthounds, dogs that hunt primarily by sight, include the Saluki, the Whippet, the Greyhound, the Irish Wolfhound, and the Scottish Deerhound.

"In 1998 the US Senate, following the Canadian precedent, passed a resolution declaring that 6 April was thenceforth to be celebrated as National Tartan Day, to honour "the major role that Scottish-Americans have played in the founding of this Nation".
The resolution cites the fact that almost half the signers of the Declaration of Independence were of Scottish descent, that the governors of nine of the Thirteen States were of Scottish ancestry; "and that Scottish-Americans have successfully helped to shape this country in its formative years, thus guiding this Nation through its most troubled times."
"They chose that date because 'it has special significance for all Americans'," explains Scottish History Professor, Ted Cowan, keynote speaker at the Tartan Day Academic Symposium in Washington DC for the past three years. "That's because the Declaration of Arbroath, which proclaimed Scotland's independence, was signed on 6 April 1320. According to the US Senate, 'the American Declaration of Independence was modelled in part on that inspirational document'."

Douglas Blane
Avenue, University of Glasgow
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The Declaration of Arbroath (image) - (large image)
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"...and from the chronicles and books of the ancients we find that among other famous nations our own, the Scots, has been graced with widespread renown. They journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage tribes, but nowhere could they be subdued by any race, however barbarous..."

English translation at Clan MacRae Online
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"...nuncquam Anglorum dominio aliquatenus volumus subiugari..."
(sound file)
too much faithat National Archives UK
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The Declaration of Arbroath in the original Latin

Banksy
Banksy
Banksy
Banksy

"The simplest case of a mistake was one I heard on the radio recently by an artist who had been brought into one of a series of programmes on numbers. In the one on the Golden Section he went on to describe the spiral in the Golden Section rectangle. This is not an easy thing to do on the radio."

The Myth Of The Nautilus Shell
Spirals and the Golden Section
John Sharp
Nexus Network Journal

December Night

The cold slope is standing in darkness
But the south of the trees is dry to the touch

The heavy limbs climb into the moonlight bearing feathers
I came to watch these
White plants older at night
The oldest
Come first to the ruins

And I hear magpies kept awake by the moon
The water flows through its
Own fingers without end

Tonight once more
I find a single prayer and it is not for men

~W.S. Merwin

laureate of the Golden Crown of the Struga Poetry Evenings
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poem at terrapoetica
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The Creation of the Moon
Anonymous Caxinua, Amazon
translated by W.S. Merwin

Merwin at the Academy of American Poets

Bruce McCandless II

APOD/Astronomy Picture of the Day
LHEA at NASA/GSFC & Michigan Tech.U.