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Horse.Futuristy : pervyĭ zhurnal russkikh futuristov. 1914. Illustration from a journal of Russian futuristic poetry.
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Horses and humans. Russkii narodnyi ornament. Ornament national russe. 1872. Russian embroidery pattern.
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Annoyed frogs. Some of Aesop’s fables. 1883. Illustration by Randolph Caldecott for “The Frogs Desiring a King.”
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“He is only a wild beast when treated like a wild beast.” Tramping with a poet in the Rockies, with thirty-eight emblems by Vernon Hill. 1928.
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Great Sphinx. Selected proofs from the first and second portfolios of illustrations from Scribner’s Monthly and St. Nicholas.1881.
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“The jellyfish uses its tentacles to draw food into its mouth.” Everyday Problems in Biology.1939.
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Fowzi the fool,
who beat everyone at dominoes,
insisted he spoke with God as he spoke with goats
poem excerpt, naomi shahib nye source image
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the entire history
of me is here—viper of memory,
stab of regret, red light of oblivion.
poem excerpt, henri cole source image
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Elmohr Iris. Iris tulips daffodils. 1945. Cooley’s Gardens. Silverton, Oregon. Catalog cover detail. Processed.
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the half-compassion and half-horror we feel for the creatures
we want not to hurt and prefer not to touch
poem excerpt, craig arnold image source
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I’ve scrubbed
a lover’s blood from the kitchen tile such cleaning
takes so much time you expect there to be confetti at the end
poem excerpt, kaveh akbar image source
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the dozen zucchini
lined up on the counter like placid troops with the onions, their
minions
poem excerpt, jessica greenbaum source image
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