the lilac switch, the apple tree, soot, gravity

With fiction, poetry and mystery I observed the airport.
via :::

How quickly doing good gets tangled up!

Landscape with Mud Turtle

I pressed the rough, live ends of their antlers
against my forehead and wished.

Under the pond mud, half-frozen, dormant among the dormant,
turtles breathe through their skins...

Jennifer Atkinson/PoetryDaily

a small guitar

If people are telling me -- and especially if they are warning me -- "Don't go there," "Don't do that," I tend to want to "go there" and "do that."

The nose seems to have gone for a walk

Nomad Two Worlds

University of Nottingham - The Periodic Table of Videos

(youtube videos about each element on the periodic table)

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via YouTube Education: 80 Intelligent Video Collections
Open Culture "The best free cultural & educational media on the web"

Er

Twelve days after his death in battle, the body of Er—
Son of Armenius, a hero of legend in far Pamphylia—
As torches were readied, came to life again on his funeral pyre,
And told what he had seen of the other world,
That his soul in a crush of companions had journeyed
To a mysterious place...

J. D. McClatchy/Poetry Daily

washing those dishes

He carried the grief of those left behind

Man & Load of Fuel (detail)
Sidney D. Gamble Photographs
Pyongyang (Korea)
Sojourn, 1917-1919: China, Hawaii, Japan, Korea, San Francisco
Duke Libraries > Digital Collections > photographs

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Gorge
House on Cargo Junk
Prison Gallows
Carruthers & Spot (horse)

Too far—he said

...Hand me that what do you call him cellular,
I will arrange dinner. No. What good is what
can talk if not over mountains,
like the megaphone trucks selling trees and fish
slow-trawling down the village street...

Charles O. Hartman/PoetryDaily

What's Not to Love about Bagpipes?

On the other hand—
the years they've persisted (thousands),
comforting shepherds on the Isle of Mull,

And the guy at the beach wearing running shoes,
practicing scales in a pre-dawn mist...

Juditha Dowd/Poetry Daily

Smudge of a dog, up and to the west, I try

Where bushes periodically burn, children fear other
children: girls

...which—don't we know—is all the heart afforded
a certain type: untended, magnifying...

Camille Dungy/PoetryDaily

Stories are an inseparable part of the human dream.

Robin Williamson interview at Green Man Review
via Wizz Jones

The Inpenetrable String Tangle
John Renbourn & Robin Williamson - Wheel Of Fortune

Life in Russia
Aleksey Petrosian/English Russia
genius photographer