For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.

Rumer Godden

Lake Powell, AZ

xzxzxzxzxzxzxOh holy day.
For the river to fill...

Ian Harris/Verse Daily


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Little White Truck

xzxzxzxz ...as they kiss, and surely
it could hold...

Jessica Greenbaum/Poetry Daily

Martian sunset

Go On, Sure, Why Not

eternity in which we
pause occasionally and insist upon staking claim
to an aesthetic point of view. One wants
to be singled out. At the same time, one
wants to be hidden in a thicket of sharp
black leaves to be nothing
but a pair of orange eyes without
the human burden of self-awareness

Gail Wronsky/VerseDaily

One fact, important to remember in futile moments: a duck’s quack is incapable of producing an echo.

I declare the crippled Dorothy Horn

Then Jack the Truth-Teller visited the projects

a dramatist of the highest, subtlest class

The Gift

...and my father spun one orange in his palm
and said quietly, "This was Christmas, 1938,"

Sean Lause/Poetry Daily

Hey there! mark_twain is using Twitter
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via Maud Newton

Webcast of the solstice sunrise from Newgrange.

My Heart (Cut View)

The mommy doll is upstairs, jerking the sheets straight. The daddy doll is at a downward angle, leaving. Finally the mommy doll leaves too. But I stay home. After all, it's my heart. However it leaks...

Lola Haskins/Poetry Daily

or at the very least drown out the sound

Weenie Juke Radio is Off The Air

July 15th, 2007 - Thanks to Sound Exchange, the RIAA and the Copyright Royalty Board of the Library of Congress, the Weenie Juke has been forced to shut down.

Were we to stay on the air, we could be forced to pay unfair performance royalty rates that equal approximately 100% of our total revenue, and which would equal more than twice that as rates increased each year until 2010. We are not against paying royalties and fully believe in supporting artists who make music, even though most of the artists we play have long been dead and gone. We also believe in paying for music and have encouraged listeners to purchase CDs from the labels that put out the country blues music we love.

We are, however, against extortionate rates determined by those who care nothing about music and musicians -- only about cash. Not cash in the hands of artists, but in the pockets of executives, corporate lawyers and shareholders...

Cordially yours,
Weenie Campbell
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via Big Road Blues
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see also on this topic:
SibLINGSHOT News

America. T'is I, in tempting divers, for to try By sundry means, t'obtaine me, caus'de them dye And, last discover'd, undiscover'd am: For, men, to treade my Soyle, as yet, are lame

America painted to the life

Ferdinando Gorges

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Super! Izgleda, da ti štekaš!
via RW

All images and links Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
via wood s lot
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Emil Burgermeister, mountaineer, who with his wife Fanny trekked through the national parks and forests of California, Oregon, and Washington from the 1910s through the early 1930s
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"Get Secretly Behind the Tree"
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"Butter is Got from the Roots of An Old Tree"
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Stieglitz, Alfred
Brigman perched in a tree
18 June 1912
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The Wizard Tree
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Rachel Carson as a young girl
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Eugene O'Neill standing with Carlotta Monterey O'Neill
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photo of Eugene O'Neill standing in walkway, looking up at tree in garden
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Fig tree - Havasu - washed away later
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Harlem's Wishing Tree/Tree of Hope was an elm which stood in front of the Lafayette Theatre in between 131st and 132nd Streets. It was believed to convery good luck to any who stood under its branches, and later, to grant jobs to unemployed actors who...
Harlem's Tree of Hope
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Two males nudes, one against tree, one in background
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"The Tree of the Soul"
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man by tree playing two flutes
Douglas, Norman
Calabria photograph Album
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Two women resting in front of tree
Louise Crane
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Blue Wings (Blood girl)
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One girl at play lodge
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Man-girl
Dorothy refuses to live life of weaker sex
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Pour Jessie
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Florence Munsell and Diana
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Full-length double portrait Siamese twins
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Woman and girl seated on the grass
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Comanches
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Lucy Turns Back's little girl
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Young Indian girl wearing blue dress
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young girl, woman, and Algerian man having a picnic
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A tubercular woman Santa Fe, New Mexico 1913
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young girl with a hat
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The Aztec lilliputians
Illustrated memoir of an eventful expedition into Central America : resulting in the discovery of the idolatrous city of Iximaya, in an unexplored region; and the possession of two remarkable Aztec children, Maximo, (the man), & Bartola, (the girl)
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Hattie Moore, a Kiowa Girl Anadarko, Okla.
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In a neighbouring village resides a good-looking peasant girl called Aldonza Lorenza
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Rachel Carson as a young girl holding a toy bear in the snow
Rachel Carson as a young girl with two dogs sitting on steps
Rachel Carson as a young girl with two dogs sitting on the grass
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This is a man dressed as a girl and dances in the sacred rain during the summer
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Black man seated with young white girl
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photo of young Alfred Stieglitz sitting in the woods with a hat; girl seated in background
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Wishham Girl
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TV with Empire State Building

Old woman seated by lodge door (detail)

Walter McClintock
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

photo of woman on a bed clutching a pillow

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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link to site via wood s lot

Edward Teller’s Leg

...our breathing fell away down
the mountain. We leaned back,

the tinkling sky
chandeliered with neurons. All the night before...

Ron Smith/Poetry Daily