"A fleuron is a typographic element, or glyph, used
either as a punctuation mark or as an ornament
for typographic compositions. Fleurons are stylized
forms of flowers or leaves; the term derives
from the Old French word floron for flower.
Robert Bringhurst in The Elements of Typographic Style
calls the forms 'horticultural dingbats.' It is also known as
a printers' flower, or more formally as an aldus leaf
(after Italian Renaissance printer Aldus Manutius), hedera leaf,
or simply hedera (ivy leaf) symbol."
Nat history museum
Poetry
Bow truss roasters
A creative writing professor brings
a snapping turtle and his new-born
grandson into a bar — it ends exactly as you imagine.
“Come and show me another city with lifted head
singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.” C Sandburg
I freeze my spine in an attempt to stay pure,
To fractalize suffering, cook up distillate
And smoke academic — I only manage back pain.
Green mill
Girl and goat
Ray Yoshida
Art Green
Oscar Nurlinger
Richard Misrach
Nahuatl
"Alebrijes (Spanish pronunciation: [aleˈβɾixes]) are brightly colored
Oaxacan-Mexican folk art sculptures of fantastical creatures. The first
alebrijes, along with use of the term, originated with Pedro Linares.
In the 1930s, Linares fell very ill and while he was in bed,
unconscious, Linares dreamt of a strange place resembling a forest.
There, he saw trees, animals, rocks, clouds that suddenly
turned into something strange, some kind of animals,
but, unknown animals. He saw a donkey with butterfly wings,
a rooster with bull horns, a lion with an eagle head,
and all of them were shouting one word, 'Alebrijes.'
Upon recovery, he began recreating the creatures he saw
in cardboard and papier-mâché and called them Alebrijes."
The greatest story ever told ... the woman who laid down
and became a mountain and no one was there to see it
or write about it so you'll never know & I'll never know
