It was always possible

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The photographs were taken at Korkeasaari Zoo on July 2nd.

(Posting title is from the poem Eight Ball by Claudia Emerson.)

Close my eyes

Snake 1

Snake 2

The photographs were taken on March 30th.

(Posting title is from the poem Snake Song by J. Patrick Lewis.)

No no, here’s the key to it

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The photographs were taken at Malminkartano hill in Helsinki on March 24th.

(Posting title is from the poem Snake by Dannie Abse.)

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.)

Showing where he ended and the world began

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The photographs were taken at the Elma event in Messukeskus, Helsinki, on November 11th.

We got 15 cm of heavy snow today. I didn't commute by bicycle, which was a wise decision as the road conditions were challenging in the afternoon. There is some snow shoveling in the program for the evening.

(Posting title is from the poem The Ancestors Explain How Envy Grew by Afaa Michael Weaver.)

To mix good and evil, to blur the line

Snake 1

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Snake 3

Today is World Snake Day. The photographs were taken at Korkeasaari Zoo in Helsinki on July 12th and 16th.

(Posting title is from the poem You Who Wronged by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Richard Lourie.)

It seemed like the thing to do

Zoo 1

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Zoo 3

Te photographs were taken at Korkeasaari Zoo on June 25th.

This morning I walked for three hours in Meiko, exploring the swamps between lake Tränuhals and lake Kotolampi. There were ripe cloudberries to pick and eat, and some may still remain after I went through the swamps. I tasted also blueberries, wild strawberries and raspberries.

(Posting title is from the poem Turkey Shooting on Mount Monadnoc by Leroy Searle.)