Species / oatmeal for the refugees

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 Migrants stand in line after disembarking from the Italian Navy vessel Bersagliare at the Sicilian port of Augusta, Italy: photo by Antonio Parrinello/Reuters, 16 September 2016

Migrants stand in line after disembarking from the Italian Navy vessel Bersagliare at the Sicilian port of Augusta, Italy: photo by Antonio Parrinello/Reuters, 16 September 2016

 African migrants were rescued on Sunday about 18 miles off the coast of Libya as they tried to cross the Mediterranean: photo by Santi Palacios/Associated Press, 12 September 2016

African migrants were rescued on Sunday about 18 miles off the coast of Libya as they tried to cross the Mediterranean: photo by Santi Palacios/Associated Press, 12 September 2016

 

African refugees and migrants wait aboard a partially punctured rubber boat to be assisted, during a rescue operation on the Mediterranean Sea, about 13 miles North of Sabratha, Libya: photo by Santi Palacios / AP. 10 September 2016

J. H. Almeida: Graduate in Continental Philosophy

   

I know some Portuguese

     words now,

but not enough

to have destroyed Salazar.

Enough though, 

    to make oatmeal.

         for the refugees.

Migrants pose beside a deteriorating statue of Spider-Man outside a Red Cross center in the city of Ventimiglia on the French-Italian border, on September 14, 2016. According to Italy's interior ministry, about 124,500 migrants have arrived since the start of 2016, just slightly more than the 122,000 recorded for the whole of last year. Italy is sheltering growing numbers of would-be refugees as its neighbors to the north move to tighten their borders and make it harder for migrants to travel to their preferred destinations in northern Europe.: photo by Valery Hache / AFP, 14 September 2016 

 
#Houthis in #Yemen made it clear they will fight to last man, woman and child. Partition is only solution. #SouthYemen: image via Khaled Al-Abbadi @IbnAbbadi, 6 September 2016 

#HillaryClinton may restart campaigning in a ‘couple of days’: image via Al Arabiya English @Al Arabiya Eng, 12 September 2016 

#US, #Israel sign $38 billion military aid package: image via Al Arabiya English @Al Arabiya Eng, 14 September 2016

An Israeli soldier covered his face from dust stirred up by a tank in the Golan Heights, near the border with Syria, on Tuesday. The Israeli military said on Tuesday that Syrian forces had fired two surface-to-air missiles after Israeli aircraft targeted artillery positions in the Syrian Golan Heights, but it categorically denied a claim by the Syrians that they had shot down an Israeli warplane and a drone.: photo by Ariel Schalit/Associated Press, 13 September 2016

 

An Israeli soldier covered his face from dust stirred up by a tank in the Golan Heights, near the border with Syria, on Tuesday. The Israeli military said on Tuesday that Syrian forces had fired two surface-to-air missiles after Israeli aircraft targeted artillery positions in the Syrian Golan Heights, but it categorically denied a claim by the Syrians that they had shot down an Israeli warplane and a drone.: photo by Ariel Schalit/Associated Press, 13 September 2016

 #Israel-i planes hit #Gaza after rocket fire: image via Al Arabiya English @Al Arabiya Eng, 14 September 2016

Palestinians celebrated the Eid al-Adha holiday at a beach in Tel Aviv on Tuesday: photo by Oded Balilty/Associated Press, 13 September 2016



Palestinians celebrated the Eid al-Adha holiday at a beach in Tel Aviv on Tuesday: photo by Oded Balilty/Associated Press, 13 September 2016

 
#Israel-i troops kill Palestinian in #WestBank raid: image via Al Arabiya English @Al Arabiya Eng, 15 September 2016

Armed women loyal to the Houthi movement ride on the back of a truck as they take part in a parade to show support for the movement in Sanaa, Yemen: photo by Reuters, 6 September 2016



Armed women loyal to the Houthi movement ride on the back of a truck as they take part in a parade to show support for the movement in Sanaa, Yemen: photo by Reuters, 6 September 2016

 
A girl looks at armed women loyal to the Houthi movement as they take part in a parade to show support for the movement in Sanaa, Yemen: photo by Reuters, 6 September 2016 



A girl looks at armed women loyal to the Houthi movement as they take part in a parade to show support for the movement in Sanaa, Yemen: photo by Reuters, 6 September 2016

#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
  
Ukraine's Maryna Piddubna warms up before the final of women's 100m freestyle (S11) of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games at Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Rio de Janeiro: photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP, 15 September 2016
 

Chiaki Takada of Japan competes in the Women's Long Jump, T11 Final in Rio's Olympic Stadium during the Summer Paralympic Games: photo by  Jason Cairnduff / Reuters, 16 September 2016


The 2016 Rio Paralympics, Wheelchair Fencing, Men's Individual Epee Category B Gold Medal Final between Andrei Pranevich (left) of Belarus and Ammar Ali of Iraq: photo by Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters, 13 September  2016

Species

Raccoon on roof, early morning: photo by Carsten Volkwein, 2007

Species

Self reborn as lotus in head

the full moon a half degree wide

                     just after sunset peeping

            later still, indigo cheesecloth night

 

Redwood cloaked in fog

raccoons moving from floor to floor,

            from room to room

in the fog,

with a sound like thin paper tearing
 
Tom Clark: Species, from Light and Shade, 2006

Raccoons in a tree: photo by Gary J. Wood, 2006

 
Raccoon (procyon lotor): photo by Darkone, 2005
  

A five-month-old baby female Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) plays with her mother Sulli at Bioparc Fuengirola in Fuengirola, near Malaga, Spain: photo by Jon Nazca/Reuters, 12 September 2016

A 5-month-old female Bornean orangutan and her mother at Bioparc Fuengirola, a zoo in southern Spain: photo by Jon Nazca/Reuters, 12 September 2016

 

A 5-month-old female Bornean orangutan and her mother at Bioparc Fuengirola, a zoo in southern Spain: photo by Jon Nazca/Reuters, 12 September 2016

A powerful typhoon lashed Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on Wednesday. The storm, which was reported to be the strongest of its kind this year, swept into southeastern China on Thursday: photo by Ritchie B. Tongo/European Pressphoto Agency, 14 September 2016

 

A powerful typhoon lashed Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on Wednesday. The storm, which was reported to be the strongest of its kind this year, swept into southeastern China on Thursday: photo by Ritchie B. Tongo/European Pressphoto Agency, 14 September 2016



An ancient bridge, collapsed after typhoon Meranti hit southeast China, in Yongchun, Fujian province, China: photo by Reuters, 15 September 2016

The image of a face appears as hundreds of military troops holding mosaic cards raise them in a wave, during a review of the troops that will march in the Independence Day parade, in Mexico City,. Thousands gathered in Mexico City's main square known as the Zocalo on Friday for a massive military parade to commemorate Mexico's independence from Spain.: photo by Rebecca Blackwell / AP, 14 September 2016
 

Men on horseback ride through a pine tree forest chased by a bull in Tordesillas, Spain. Men on horseback and on foot traditionally have chased the bull and speared it in front of thousands of onlookers in what became known as one of Spain's goriest spectacles, but amid increasing protests by animal rights activists the regional government last year banned the killing of bulls at town festivals, though traditional bullfights were not affected.: photo by Daniel Ochoa de Olza / AP, 13 September 2016

 
  PETA supporters lie with fake blood poured over their bodies as they protest animal cruelty and the consumption of meat, in front of the town hall in Frankfurt, Germany: photo by Michael Probst / AP, 16 September 2016

 
Devotees prepare to immerse an idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha in the Arabian Sea after worship marking the end of the 10-day long Ganesh Chaturti festival in Mumbai, India, on September 15, 2016. The act symbolizes sending the god back to his mythical home in the snow-capped mountains taking all the worries and problems of his worshipers with him.: photo by Rafiq Maqbool / AP, 15 September 2016


Muslims attend a morning prayer to mark Eid al-Adha in Moscow. Muslims are celebrating Eid al-Adha (the feast of sacrifice), the second of two Islamic holidays celebrated worldwide marking the end of the annual pilgrimage or Hajj to the Saudi holy city of Mecca.: photo by Alexander Utkin / AFP, 12 September 2016


The damaged interior of Khan al-Wazir market in the government-held side of Aleppo's historic city center. Violence broke out in Aleppo in mid-2012, more than a year after anti-government protests first erupted across Syria. More than five years of war have turned Aleppo's historic city centre, a UNESCO-listed World Heritage site home to an imposing citadel, into a makeshift military barracks.: photo by Youssef Karwashan / AFP, 16 September  2016

A deer crosses a field near the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station site near Bridgwater in Britain: photo by Stefan Wermuth / Reuters, 14 September 2016