I can't sleep…
To be held
by the light
was what I wanted,
to be a tree drinking the rain
— Linda Hogan, from “To Be Held,” Dark. Sweet: New & Selected Poems.
Notes:
Eric Yahnker with Pandemic Lovers (after Magritte), 2020, oil on linen, 36 x 27.5 in. Eric Yahnker is a contemporary artist born in 1976 in Torrance, California. His humorous, meticulously rendered graphite and colored pencil drawings and elaborate process pieces examine pop culture and politics. He can be found at his website and on Instagram.
A giraffe peers up at a drone at a closed safari park, which has begun selling half-price advance tickets online to raise money to feed its more than 2,000 animals. Rebecca Blackwell, April 19, 2020, Chapa de Mota, Mexico.
An update to this morning’s post on A Disturbance of the Peace.
Forget the Man-Made Traps.
Guess who’s visiting our backyard, on his perch, 10 feet above the bird feeders, waiting for his dinner. (45 minutes and counting)
Wow!
Thank you Eric Kanigan for the shots. Shots taken a few minutes ago from the 2nd floor.