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Sunday 2 April 2017

animal spirits (partial views): OK, deer / Joseph Ceravolo: Cat of Eternity

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DSC_0379 | by richbuchanan

[Deer, near Berkeley]: photo by Rich Buchanan, 6 November 2016

DSC_0379 | by richbuchanan

[Deer, near Berkeley]: photo by Rich Buchanan, 6 November 2016

DSC_0379 | by richbuchanan

[Deer, near Berkeley]: photo by Rich Buchanan, 6 November 2016
OK, deer

Two deer on the night path ahead, a third
walks out into the street
light hooves audible from here

It's OK, deer, no worries
is what I usually say
and the deer usually stay, like these do
nibbling on the dark something or other bushes
taking their own sweet time
straying up the shadowed hillside
Slight rustling of leaves
can't see them yet know they're there

They can see
and hear
what I can't see or hear...

It's OK, deer


Deer on a foggy Berkeley morning | by lauramorlandrhodes

Deer on a foggy Berkeley morning: photo by Laura Morland, 14 November 2016

Joseph Ceravolo: Cat of Eternity

Untitled | by Md Enamul Kabir

 [Untitled]: photo by Md. Enamul Kabir, 31 March 2017

Untitled | by Md Enamul Kabir

 [Untitled]: photo by Md. Enamul Kabir, 31 March 2017

Untitled | by Md Enamul Kabir

 [Untitled]: photo by Md. Enamul Kabir, 31 March 2017
 
Joseph Ceravolo: Cat of Eternity

                            February 25, 1987

About 2 feet from the curb, in the street
a cat was crouched. From afar I thought
it was sniffing, but as I got closer
I knew. It was looking down at the ground,
looking at eternity, breathing,
its head down like a disappointment.
It was only a cat
dirty, black and white, solid
on a wooden beam, not underfed.
Cars swerving left. I picked it up,
this lump of breath.
What is the noble truth of death? Blindness
turned inward to endless seas
as the struggle ebbs far away.

Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): Cat of Eternity [February 25, 1987], from Collected Poems, 2012


#3 | by Md. Imam Hasan

#3 [Dhaka]: photo by Muhammad Imam Hasan, 1 April 2017

Street | Dhaka | 2017 | by Sohail Bin Mohammad

Street | Dhaka 2017: photo by Sohail Bin Mohammad Imam Hasan, 2 March 2017

Untitled | by Hans Palmboom

 [Dubai]: photo by Hans, 7 March 2011

Untitled | by alejandra cárdenas

[Untitled]: photo by alejandra cárdenas, 6 May 2011

Berlin | by Street Photography www.osiowy.pl

[U-Bahn, Berlin]
: photo by Zbigniew Osiowy, 21 October 2012
 
animal spirits (partial views)

untitled | by Mr.Lightman1975

[Untitled]: photo by Setsiri Silapuwanchai, 22 February 2016

untitled | by Mr.Lightman1975

[Untitled]: photo by Setsiri Silapuwanchai, 22 February 2016

untitled | by Mr.Lightman1975

[Untitled]: photo by Setsiri Silapuwanchai, 22 February 2016

* | by Sakulchai Sikitikul

[fish, Songkhla, Thailand]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 5 February 2017

* | by Sakulchai Sikitikul

[fish, Songkhla, Thailand]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 5 February 2017

* | by Sakulchai Sikitikul

[fish, Songkhla, Thailand]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 5 February 2017

Untitled | by Blue Rattanapol

[Untitled]: photo by Blue Rattanapol, 26 February 2017

Untitled | by Blue Rattanapol

[Untitled]: photo by Blue Rattanapol, 26 February 2017

Untitled | by Blue Rattanapol

[Untitled]: photo by Blue Rattanapol, 26 February 2017

#21 Hand | by issaret.chalermsopone

hand [Bangkok]: photo by ISSARET CHALERMSOPONE, 15 December 2016
 
#21 Hand | by issaret.chalermsopone
  
hand [Bangkok]: photo by ISSARET CHALERMSOPONE, 15 December 2016

#21 Hand | by issaret.chalermsopone
 
hand [Bangkok]: photo by ISSARET CHALERMSOPONE, 15 December 2016

* | by toufiq_ovi

[Untitled]: photo by toufiq_ovi, 11 August 2016

* | by toufiq_ovi

[Untitled]: photo by toufiq_ovi, 11 August 2016

* | by toufiq_ovi

[Untitled]: photo by toufiq_ovi, 11 August 2016

5 comments:

kent said...

TC: The spirits of Tigers wish you "Happy Opening Day" from your old stomping grounds. Of course the weatherman sez showers, but hey, it's April in the Paris of Illinois.

TC said...


kent,

I see the #Tigers over/under is set at 82.5.

Me, I'm taking that any day of the millennium!

billoo said...

Tom, one of those camels has six legs!

TC said...

Oh, aye. The animal spirits, then!

(Actually b if you look very closely you will discern that the one nearest us has at least seven, more likely eight... more curious still!)

TC said...

(By nearest us I mean furthest or more precisely further from us, of the two, naturally, he added.)