Flamingo Bones

Wandering around Google Books this week I found this great engraving of a flamingo's skeleton, from On the Anatomy of Vertebrates, by Richard Owen (London: 1866). I should flip through the rest ... I'm sure there are plenty of other great engravings. But this composition I liked how the long neck inscribes a near-perfect quarter-circle, which looks wrong and stilted but still graceful.

Sabbath Poem - The Maneuver

"The Maneuver", by William Carlos Williams. From his Collected Poems (and bravo to New Directions for allowing Google Books to allow multipage previews when you search it!)