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All-seeing Eye (Philadelphia): photo by efo, 11 March 2016
a hieroglyph of the dying of the poet friend to the foxes and the mice
seabirds wheel through stormy sky above Yaquina Head Light
day want sun and sun want bright and night want shade
honk! here are lynxes among the balustrades
surrounds me from the cheerful ways of men
in that land where all the trains stopped running at once
because the sudden flow of money had burned out all the tracks
let me not wander in a barren dream gaze backward cast
Spidery aztec mural shadow of bare late winter tree
against crumbling building thin eastern seaboard poverty light
against crumbling building thin eastern seaboard poverty light
day want sun and sun want bright and night want shade
the Spear-Danes did deeds of valour what due did it bring them
and I have leave to go down this occluded road
all full of turnings like to a maze I come to the Circle
honk! here are lynxes among the balustrades
but clouds instead and ever-during dark
where the developers wanted to put the new state capital
came worse instead and ever-during dark honk!
surrounds me from the cheerful ways of men
cut off and for the Book of Knowledge Fair
presented with a universal Mont Blanc
a wanderer has turned him from the road to wonder and
in that land where all the trains stopped running at once
because the sudden flow of money had burned out all the tracks
but toward dream horses fresh in fresh dream grass

Laundromat (Philadelphia): photo by efo, 12 March 2016

Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church (Richmond, California): photo by efo, 5 March 2016

Yaquina Head Light, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 17 March 2016

Rain, Oregon Coast: photo by Austin Granger, 16 March 2016

Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 16 March 2016

Hood River, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 10 March 2016

anyone on #BART? shoot VIDEO message ONBOARD and share #DearBART. we might use ON AIR on @abc7newsBayArea today! thx!: image via Kristen Sze Verified account @abc7kristensze, 18 March 2016

#BART shutdown underscores the system’s overwhelming problem: It's just too old. via @actuan: image via SF Chronicle Verified account @sfchronicle, 18 March 2016

Damaged diode - lets current go one way but not the other. Employee tells me unusual to have 55 damaged in one day: image via Melanie Woodrow @MelanieWoodrow, 17 March 2016

Police officers blocked a road in the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels. A Belgian official said Salah Abdeslam, believed to be the 10th participant in the Paris terrorist attacks of Nov. 13, was captured in a raid there on Friday afternoon.: photo by Dirk Waem/Agence France-Presse, 18 March 2016

Police officers blocked a road in the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels. A Belgian official said Salah Abdeslam, believed to be the 10th participant in the Paris terrorist attacks of Nov. 13, was captured in a raid there on Friday afternoon.: photo by Dirk Waem/Agence France-Presse, 18 March 2016

Explosions heard in Molenbeek district of Brussels: Belgian media: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 18 March 2016

Fugitive from Paris attacks arrested in Brussels shootout: prosecutor: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 18 March 2016

What we know about captured #ParisAttacks suspect Salah Abdeslam: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 18 March 2016

""It was a success against terrorism.": image via AJE News @AJENews, 18 March 2016

"They are far more numerous than we thought," Hollande says after Abdeslam arrest.: image via AJE News @AJENews, 18 March 2016

From the archives: Don't scapegoat our children, say Molenbeek mothers.: image via AJE News @AJENews, 18 March 2016

Turkish PM says hopeful of finding common ground with i.e. receiving major blood money from EU to stop influx of migrants: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 18 March 2016

EU migrant agreement aka mega bribe deal with human suffering profiteer Turkey approved and bonded in frog blood, Czech PM says: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 18 March 2016

Turkey and EU reach controversial human traffic engineering deal on refugees.: image via AJE News @AJENews, 18 March 2016

Turkey and EU reach landmark payoff deal on refugees. But can it work?: image via AJE News @AJENews, 18 March 2016

Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders on trial for "scum" comment about Moroccans.: image via AJE News @AJENews, 18 March 2016

"Many spit out her name with disdain – as if it were bitter in their mouths. Dilma.": image via AJE News @AJENews, 18 March 2016
Workers of General Motors march against Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and oppositions as they carry inflatable dolls depicting Rousseff and opposition senator Aecio Neves, near the GM plant in Sao Jose dos Campos: photo by Roosevelt Cassio/Reuters, 18 March 2016
Workers of General Motors march against Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and oppositions as they carry inflatable dolls depicting Rousseff and opposition senator Aecio Neves, near the GM plant in Sao Jose dos Campos: photo by Roosevelt Cassio/Reuters, 18 March 2016
Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hugs Brazilian
president Dilma Rousseff after he was sworn in as chief of staff in Brasilia: photo by Evaristo Sa/AFP, 17 March 2016
Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hugs Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff after he was sworn in as chief of staff in Brasilia: photo by Evaristo Sa/AFP, 17 March 2016

Supporters of Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr wave national flags during a demonstration calling for governmental reform and elimination of corruption outside the main gates of Baghdad’s Green Zone: photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP, 18 March 2016

Supporters of Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr wave national flags during a demonstration calling for governmental reform and elimination of corruption outside the main gates of Baghdad’s Green Zone: photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP, 18 March 2016

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel,
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron and France’s President Francois
Hollande attend a meeting during a European Union leaders summit on
migration: photo by Francois Lenoir/Pool, 18 March 2016

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron and France’s President Francois Hollande attend a meeting during a European Union leaders summit on migration: photo by Francois Lenoir/Pool, 18 March 2016

Racegoers watch the 1.30 JCB Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham Festival, England: photo by Andrew Boyers/Livepic/Reuters, 18 March 2016

A man hangs towels on fences in an abandoned village near buildings of a residential compound in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China: photo by David Johnson/Reuters, 18 March 2016

A man hangs towels on fences in an abandoned village near buildings of a residential compound in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China: photo by David Johnson/Reuters, 18 March 2016
A woman pushes her dogs in a pram at the Shanghai International Pet Expo in Shanghai: photo by Johannes Eisele/AFP, 18 March 2016
A woman pushes her dogs in a pram at the Shanghai International Pet Expo in Shanghai: photo by Johannes Eisele/AFP, 18 March 2016
A man rests before attending Friday prayers at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia: photo by Garry Lotulung/Reuters, 18 March 2016

A man rests before attending Friday prayers at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia: photo by Garry Lotulung/Reuters, 18 March 2016

Models present creations by designer Ryota Murakami and Chiaki Murakami from their Autumn/Winter 2016 collection for their brand RYOTAMURAKAMI during Tokyo Fashion Week in, Japan: photo by Issei Kato/Reuters, 18 March 2016

Models present creations by designer Ryota Murakami and Chiaki
Murakami from their Autumn/Winter 2016 collection for their brand
RYOTAMURAKAMI during Tokyo Fashion Week in, Japan: photo by Issei Kato/Reuters, 18 March 2016
Residents look out of windows as the sheriff of a demolition team negotiates to avoid violence during the demolition of an informal settlers’ community in Manila: photo by Noel Celis/AFP, 18 March 2016
2 comments:
Beautiful poem Tom, all those echoes of days (and years) gone by, those echoes into the now "ever-during dark," that man in Guangzhou waving multiple red flag warnings, "poet fried to the foxes and the mice" making his way down the road to "the Circle // honk! . . . toward dream horses fresh in fresh dream grass" . . .
Thanks, Steve. Thinking about the Hollande/Merkel love show -- odd how a few days has washed a bit of the confidence out of that smug Euro crowing over its great success in stifling its own oppressed minority population... "It was a success against terrorism..."
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