
Copepoda by Ernst Haeckel from Kunstformen der Natur / Artforms of Nature (1904)
Copepoda by Ernst Haeckel from Kunstformen der Natur / Artforms of Nature (1904)
It caught my eye, it caught my eye,
That fluttering flake of fallen sky.
It rode the wind as cars bored by
And did not die:
And shall not die,
That fluttering flake of fallen sky.
Post-Performative Post-Scriptum
A poem written months ago about a briefly glimpsed blue butterfly flying along — and over — a busy road. I don’t know the species, but Polyommatus icarus seems a reasonable guess.
Photo of unrolling fern frond, frondlets and frontletlets (from Free Photos)
Elsewhere Other-Engageable
• Farnsicht — beautiful black-and-white photograph of ferns by Karl Blossfeldt
Post-Performative Post-Scriptum
“Free-Wheel Ferning” is a pun on the title of core Judas-Priest track “Free-Wheel Burning”, off core Judas-Priest album Defenders of the Faith, issued in core Judas-Priest success-period of 1984.
Photo of developing ferns by the German nature photographer Karl Blossfeldt (1866-1932)
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Post-Performative Post-Scriptum
“Farnsicht” is a pun on German Farn, meaning “fern”, and Fernsicht, meaning “view” or “visibility” (literally fern, “far”, + Sicht, “visibility”).
Blue-and-yellow macaw, Ara ararauna (Linnaeus, 1758), by Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Previously pre-posted
Red and yellow maccaw, Macrocercus aracanga, by Edward Lear (1812-1888)
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(Now Scarlet Macaw, Ara macao)
Elsewhere other-accessible…
John Gould’s illustration of Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo, Cacatua leadbeateri (now Lophochroa leadbeateri) (1865)