the ocean DOESN’T care

reba! 20s

[hylian-prosecutor]

Tell me how I'm supposed to focus on "important things" when sumer is icumen in lhude sing cuccu groweþ sed and bloweþ med and springþ þe wde nu sing cuccu sing cuccu

[souvenirs]

[harsh-noise]

[fravery]

Emma Haworth

The rising sun

[clevermanka]

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

Among the centuries’ worth of eggshells, prey remains, and natural nesting material, researchers identified 226 objects that were either made or altered by humans. These included weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot.  Using carbon dating, the team determined that the items also had a huge age range. For example, a shoe made from twigs and grass is around 675-years-old, while a basket is estimated to have been woven about 150 years ago. Beyond the manufactured relics of our species’ past, archaeologists also catalogued 2,117 bones, 86 hooves, and 43 eggshells. They even located 11 hair remains among the nesting layers. More analysis will provide a look into the surrounding area’s past environment, as well as its various flora and fauna.

[oleworm]

Link to the open source article.

[apoemaday]

[since feeling is first]

by E.E. Cummings

since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world

my blood approves, and kisses are a better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry — the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids’ flutter which says

we are for each other: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life’s not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis

[robertdeniroinheat-deactivated2]

Ginger do u still have the tiktok of the guy going « you’re crazy » and the sexy one who followed his beloved for blocks into the library goes : « I’m fucking stupid » in the sexiest way possible

Always

[mifinar]

Errol Le Cain

[smoke-in-the-winds]

Just realized humans (and I guess other apes) are probably the only animals able to give good oral sex. Proof of Divine Creation?

[urgetocreate]

Viktor Zaretsky (Ukrainian 1925-90), Glowing Sky, 1988, Oil on canvas

[hungwy]

My favorite sport to play is sleep in bed. Here are the rules: you need a bed and a blanky and a pillow. You lay on bed with your head on pillow and blanky on you. You lay there and fall asleep for some time until morning. This means you win. Im going to go play it now

[shinyjolteon]

im gonna cry this person is so sweet to their fish

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Great Blue Heron hunting along the river's edge, Chicago, IL

Taken August 2025

[f00fle4cakes]

I just found this image and words cannot describe how much I love it. I don’t know where it’s from, but it looks like he’s having a jolly time

[tench]

From Chansonnier of Zeghere van Male (1542)

[wawek]

Guys, they're advertising the warm sunlight falling onto the sidewalk through the tree crowns. During a late spring evening.

[april-is]

April 9, 2023: Come Quickly, Izumi Shikibu

Come Quickly Izumi Shikibu

Come quickly—as soon as these blossoms open, they fall. This world exists as a sheen of dew on flowers.

 translated by Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani

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Other short poems and poems in translation.

Today in: 

2022: Heretic That I Am, Tomás Q. Morín 2021: The World Has Need of You, Ellen Bass 2020: Annus Mirabilis, R. A. Villanueva 2019: This Page Ripped Out and Rolled into a Ball, Brendan Constantine 2018: Winter Stars, Larry Levis 2017: In That Other Fantasy Where We Live Forever, Wanda Coleman 2016: The cat’s song, Marge Piercy 2015: The Embrace, Mark Doty 2014: No. 6, Charles Bukowski 2013: A Schoolroom in Haiti, Kenneth Koch 2012: Track 5: Summertime, Jericho Brown 2011: Death, Is All, Ana Božičević 2010: Heaven, William Heyen 2009: April in Maine, May Sarton 2008: Making Love to Myself, James L. White 2007: Publication Date, Franz Wright 2006: Living in the Body, Joyce Sutphen 2005: Aberration (The Hubble Space Telescope before repair), Rebecca Elson

[sashayed]

Two Things

Two things possess the power, Two things deserve the name, Two things can reawaken Perpetually the flame. Two things are full of wonder, Two things cast off all shame. One is known by the name of Death. And the other has no name Except the name each gives it— In no single mouth the same.

Langston Hughes (1902-1967) in The Collected Poems, written between 1931 and 1940