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Monday, 12 March 2018

That painful spark: Joseph Ceravolo: Red-Tailed Hawk / Today's Benediction

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Purim Security | by Gisele Duprez

Purim Security | purim orthodox jewish williamsburg brooklyn nyc: photo by Gisele Duprez, 1 March 2018
Purim Security | by Gisele Duprez

Purim Security | purim orthodox jewish williamsburg brooklyn nyc: photo by Gisele Duprez, 1 March 2018

Purim Security | by Gisele Duprez

Purim Security | purim orthodox jewish williamsburg brooklyn nyc: photo by Gisele Duprez, 1 March 2018


Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men are hit with a water cannon during a protest in Jerusalem against the detention of a member of their community who refuses to serve in the Israeli army: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 11 March 2018

Untitled | by Barry Talis

Untitled: photo by Barry Talis, sometime in 2016

Untitled | by Barry Talis

Untitled: photo by Barry Talis, circa 2016

Untitled | by Barry Talis

Untitled: photo by Barry Talis, 17 June 2014
Joseph Ceravolo: Red-Tailed Hawk



A Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) harasses a Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), Sussex County Landfill, Lafayette, New Jersey: photo by Tom Smith, 4 March 2009
January 17, 1987
 
I saw a red-tailed hawk
flying inland today. My son
pointed him out flying around the tree tops
in our town over the highway
resting in the branches
of the highest trees, then disappearing.

O hawk of our inner brain and vision
powerful as a microbe invading life,
beautiful as a comet in the night
subtle as the weak force 
curving the universe left,

painful as the spark that gives us life.

Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): January 17, 1987, from Collected Poems, 2013

 
A mature Red-tailed Hawk landing on a windbreak tree in farm country, Alpha, New Jersey: photo by Dah Professor, 22 December 2009

 
52 People killed in #EasternGhouta as a result of the targeting of residential neighborhoods by air raids, explosive drums, cluster bombs, napalm rockets and Chlorine gas and artillery shells. To this moment, non-stop air raids 2018/3/11 Photo @amer_almohibany: image via Amer almohibany @amer_almohibany, 11 March 2018



Russia is experiencing how to mass murder besieged #Syrian civilians in #EasternGhouta #Sakba #Kfarbatna using known and unknown prohibited bombs like these #cluster bombs @BBCWorld @cnni @FRANCE24 @FoxNews: image via Amer almohibany @amer_almohibany, 11 March 2018



Russia is experiencing how to mass murder besieged #Syrian civilians in #EasternGhouta #Sakba #Kfarbatna using known and unknown prohibited bombs like these #cluster bombs @BBCWorld @cnni @FRANCE24 @FoxNews: image via Amer almohibany @amer_almohibany, 11 March 2018



Russia is experiencing how to mass murder besieged #Syrian civilians in #EasternGhouta #Sakba #Kfarbatna using known and unknown prohibited bombs like these #cluster bombs @BBCWorld @cnni @FRANCE24 @FoxNews: image via Amer almohibany @amer_almohibany, 11 March 2018

 

Russia is experiencing how to mass murder besieged #Syrian civilians in #EasternGhouta #Sakba #Kfarbatna using known and unknown prohibited bombs like these #cluster bombs @BBCWorld @cnni @FRANCE24 @FoxNews: image via Amer almohibany @amer_almohibany, 11 March 2018

Joseph Ceravolo: Today's Benediction

February 2, 1987

I'm really sad because I've done nothing right,
or should I ask, what do I mean
nothing right? Sometimes trying
is trying and lying is the word, but
like that bird taking a snow bath
I'm not daunted. So, I went overboard.
Is not showing love and attention sometimes
that big a mistake?  Yes!  I guess it is.
You must dwell on sins
until the nitrogen forms in the brain
and the bends overtake you,
and you ascend from the deep
in resurrection plain and simple
to find yourself afloat in benediction.

Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): Today's Benediction, February 2, 1987, from Collected Poems, 2013
 


Doctor in shelters #EasternGhouta: image via Ahmad @Ahmad36120 9:56 PM 11 March 2018

Doctor in shelters #EasternGhouta: image via Ahmad @Ahmad36120 9:56 PM 11 March 2018 


Doctor in shelters #EasternGhouta: image via Ahmad @Ahmad36120 9:56 PM 11 March 2018 
 

Doctor in shelters #EasternGhouta: image via Ahmad @Ahmad36120 9:56 PM 11 March 2018 

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Untitled: photo by Job Jetwichan Chaowadee, 25 February 2018

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Untitled: photo by Job Jetwichan Chaowadee, 25 February 2018
 
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2 comments:

TC said...

Mother Google is perpetually testing us.

Yesterday I posted a poem from Joe Ceravolo's book Spring in This World of Poor Mutts.

Aram Saroyan sent this lovely back channel comment. Which I posted.

Mother was hungry and ate it right up.

"Joe, a scientist in this world of poor mutts."

12 March 2018 at 02:34
TC said...

Dylan: Delia (live, Newcastle 19 September 2000)

"All the friends I ever had are gone"

Dylan: Positively 4th Street (live, Philadelphia 15 November 2002)

from 5:00 kid really gets into it

(larry campbell lead gtr)

12 March 2018 at 03:24

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