#Yemen - A girl attends a parade held by women loyal to the #Houthis movement in #Sana’a By K. Abdullah @Reuters: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 13 September 2016
Urban fox, Bristol, UK: photo copyright by Sam Hobson / Wildlife Photographer of the Year, 14 September 2016
The Spell
The day of the dead when
the veil between us and them
is thinnest eyelash
kitty breath umbrella flutter
psychic butterfly --
A whole procession of them coming
pushing through the net –- the sugar candy
shedding of the skin and how
it lets the wind blow through the veins
the dance of the skulls and when
the spinning of the little mechanic
inside the toy clock stops
the dark man carrying two suitcases
steps from the now no longer moving train --
That’s the day when
I know someone will be
no longer waiting,
the unborn child said.
I invented what I wanted to say
in case anybody out there,
on a cold grey day in autumn,
wanted to hear the thoughts
of the dead --
I opened the door and
in flew a moth, thinking
twilight came early
A common pipistrelle bat emerges just after nightfall from its roost in a derelict house in Salamanca, Spain, to go hunting. Each has an appetite for up to 3,000 insects a night, which it eats on the wing. Its flight is characteristically fast and jerky, as it tunes its orientation with echolocation to detect objects in the dark. The sounds it makes -- too high‑pitched for most humans to hear -- create echoes that allow it to make a sonic map of its surroundings: photo copyright by Mario Cea / Wildlife Photographer of the Year, 14 September 2016
Boys play next to the gates of the Zueitina oil terminal, west of Benghazi, Libya: photo by Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Reuters, 15 September 2016
Boys play next to the gates of the Zueitina oil terminal, west of Benghazi, Libya: photo by Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Reuters, 15 September 2016
Israeli Arab youths, from the scouts youth movement, prepare for a parade for the Eid al-Adha festival in #Israel: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 12 September 2016
Muslim Israeli-Arabs play at the beach in Tel-Aviv during the three day Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice) Muslim holiday: photo by Menahem Kahana/AFP, 15 September 2016
Muslim Israeli-Arabs play at the beach in Tel-Aviv during the three day Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice) Muslim holiday: photo by Menahem Kahana/AFP, 15 September 2016
ISRAEL - Muslims Israeli-Arabs play at the beach in Tel Aviv during Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday. By @menahemkahana: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 15 September 2016
YEMEN - Smoke billows following a reported airstrike carried out by Saudi-led coalition in Sanaa. By Mohammed Huwais: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 14 September 2016
SYRIA - Boys play on a see-saw in the rebel-held town of Arbin near Damascus. By @AmeerAlhalbi #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 14 September 2016
THAILAND - A city worker sprays chemicals to control the spread of Zika virus at a school in Bangkok. By @TheLilyfish: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 14 September 2016
KENYA - A hot air balloon carrying tourists is pictured during annual wildebeest migration in the Masai Mara reserve. By @CarldeSouza1: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 14 September 2016
More than two million animals migrate from the Serengeti National
Park in Tanzania to the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya from July
to October annually, according to Maasai Mara. Here, a herd of wildebeests walks during the annual wildebeests migration: photo by Carl de
Souza/AFP, 13 September 2016
A herd of wildebeests reaches the Mara river crossing during the annual wildebeests migration: photo by Carl de
Souza/AFP, 13 September 2016
Zebra gather during the annual wildebeest migration in the Masai
Mara game reserve: photo by Carl de
Souza/AFP, 12 September 2016
Zebra gather close to a river during the annual wildebeest migration
in the Masai Mara game reserve: photo by Carl de
Souza/AFP, 12 September 2016
Zebra walk towards crossing wildebeest in the Mara river during the
annual wildebeest migration in the Masai Mara game reserve: photo by Carl de
Souza/AFP, 13 September 2016
A wildebeest herd crosses the Mara river during the
annual wildebeest migration in the Masai Mara game reserve: photo by Carl de
Souza/AFP, 13 September 2016
A crocodile in the Mara river during the annual
wildebeest migration in the Masai Mara game reserve: photo by Carl de
Souza/AFP, 13 September 2016
A large crocodile attacks a jumping wildebeest during the migration
in the Masai Mara game reserve.
The daring wildebeest returned after the first attempt by the crocodile
and was attacked again but walked away unharmed.: photo by Carl de
Souza/AFP, 12 September 2016
A crocodile attacks a wildebeest in the Mara river during the annual
wildebeest migration in the Masai Mara game reserve: photo by Carl de
Souza/AFP, 13 September 2016
A crocodile attacks a wildebeest in the Mara river during the annual
wildebeest migration in the Masai Mara game reserve: photo by Carl de
Souza/AFP, 13 September 2016
A wildebeest herd is pictured during the
annual wildebeest migration in the Masai Mara game reserve: photo by Carl de
Souza/AFP, 13 September 2016
An elephant walks past a tree during the annual wildebeest migration
in the Masai Mara game reserve: photo by Carl de
Souza/AFP, 12 September 2016
A hippo bares its teeth during the annual wildebeests migration in
the Masai Mara game reserve: photo by Carl de
Souza/AFP, 12 September 2016
A hippo bares its teeth during the annual wildebeests migration in
the Masai Mara game reserve: photo by Carl de
Souza/AFP, 12 September 2016
Giraffes stand together during the annual wildebeest migration in
the Masai Mara game reserve: photo by Carl de
Souza/AFP, 12 September 2016
A male lion injured in a fight with another male during the annual
wildebeest migration in the Masai Mara game reserve is seen: photo by Carl de
Souza/AFP, 12 September 2016
Wildebeest walk in front a hot air balloon during the annual
wildebeests migration in the Masai Mara game reserve: photo by Carl de
Souza/AFP, 12 September 2016
An ostrich walks in front of a hot air balloon carrying tourists
during the annual wildebeest migration in the Masai Mara game reserve: photo by Carl de
Souza/AFP, 14 September 2016
A wildebeest herd is pictured during the
annual wildebeest migration in the Masai Mara game reserve: photo by Carl de
Souza/AFP, 13 September 2016
Zebra gather close to a river during the annual wildebeest migration
in the Masai Mara game reserve: photo by Carl de
Souza/AFP, 12 September 2016
Wildebeest stand in the savannah during the annual wildebeest migration in the Masai Mara game reserve: photo by Carl de Souza/AFP, 13 September 2016
Wildebeest stand in the savannah during the annual wildebeest migration in the Masai Mara game reserve: photo by Carl de Souza/AFP, 13 September 2016
Syrian boy rides a donkey as they play in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern edges of the capital Damascus, on the second day of Eid al-Adha: photo by Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP, 14 September 2016
Syrian boy rides a donkey as they play in the rebel-held town of
Douma, on the eastern edges of the capital Damascus, on the second day
of Eid al-Adha: photo by Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP, 14 September 2016
Windows are opened in a high rise building as mild spring weather arrives in Sydney: photo by Peter Parks/AFP, 14 September 2016
Windows are opened in a high rise building as mild spring weather arrives in Sydney: photo by Peter Parks/AFP, 14 September 2016
AUSTRALIA - Windows are opened in a high rise building as mild spring weather arrives in Sydney. By Peter Parks #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 14 September 2016
Pakistani children buy balloons to celebrate the Eid al Adha in Karachi, Pakistan: photo by Fareed Khan/AP, 13 September 2016
An Indian Muslim child purchases decoration items for his goat after it was purchased at a livestock market #AFP: image via sajjad hussain @sajjadkmr, 11 September 2016
INDONESIA - Shantyhouses are seen on the banks of the Ciliwung river in Jakarta. By @b4yismoyo #AFP: image via Frédérique
Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 14 September 2016
A govt school in Shoian, Anantnag #Kashmir in flames after catching fire during clashes. #KashmirKillings: image via Umar Ganie @UmarGanie1, 10 September 2016 Munshi Bagh, Jammu And Kashmir
RUSSIA - A street vendor waits sits next to portrait of president Putin at a kiosk in Moscow. By Kirill Kudryavtsev: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 14 September 2016
A general view shows an overturned fishing boat in the aftermath of super typhoon Meranti, at Sizihwan in Kaohsiung: photo by Sam Yeh/AFP, 15 September 2016
A general view shows an overturned fishing boat in the aftermath of super typhoon Meranti, at Sizihwan in Kaohsiung: photo by Sam Yeh/AFP, 15 September 2016
A large cardboard depiction of a woman is placed in one of the windows of an office building in Bucharest, Romania: photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP, 15 September 2016
Terrific poem, Tom. It gets right down to the heart of the thing.
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I’ve been thinking of this poem all day. You don’t have to approve this comment, Angelica (if it comes to you). I’m just missing Tom and thinking of you both.
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