Jillian Tamaki’s work is beautiful.
I looked up Anders Brekhus Nilsen during class today, having stared at his cover for my copy of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales all quarter long…. His illustrations are my favorite part of the book. (I’ve always been more of a Grimms girl myself.)
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Olivia Crawford links to a minimalistic flickr viewer, I hardly know her.
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And when you rise —
if you do rise — it will be in the sothic year
made of the raised salvages
of the fragments all unaccomplished
of years past, scraps
and jettisons of time mortality
could not grind down into his meal of blood and laughter.
And if there is one more love
to be known, one more poem
to be opened into life,
you will find it here
or nowhere. Your hand will move
on its own
down the curving path, drawn
down by the terror and terrible lure
of vacuum:
a face materializes into your hands,
on the absolute whiteness of pages
a poem writes itself out: its title — the dream
of all poems and the text
of all loves — “Tenderness toward Existence.”
Brian Smith’s photographs of chicken embryos.
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NPR:
Scientists have recently discovered a rare, solitary type of bee that makes tiny little nests by plastering together flower petals. Each nest is a multicolored, textured little cocoon - a papier-mache husk surrounding a single egg, and protecting it while it metamorphoses into an adult.
