I can no longer stand

Zoo 1

Zoo 2

Zoo 3

The photographs were taken at Tropicario Zoo in Helsinki on July 16th.

(Posting title is from the poem Away to Canada by Joshua McCarter Simpson.)

Entangled in one another to form

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The photographs were taken at Tropicario in Helsinki on January 4th.

(Posting title is from the poem Rattlesnakes Hammered on the Wall by Ray Gonzalez.)

You bear witness without speech

Snake 1

Snake 2

The photographs were taken at Tropicario in Helsinki on January 4th.

(Posting title is from the poem On the Wall of a KZ Lager by János Pilinszky.)

In a small, dusty, rather gritty, somewhat scratchy

Zoo 1

Zoo 2

Zoo 3

The photographs were taken at the Tropicario Zoo on October 13th.

(Posting title is from the poem A Man in Blue by James Schuyler.)

Tears that fill the eyes

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The photographs were taken at Tropicario in Helsinki on June 23rd.

(Posting title is from the poem The Grand Miracle by Mary Karr.)