#sharks in the rivers

[typewriter-worries]

Sharks in the Rivers, Ada Limón [transcript in alt]

[asoftepiloguemylove]

laika and the pain of loss

Matthew Stover Revenge of the Sith // Laika in a flight harness (via wikipedia) // Aeschylus Aeschylus: The Oresteia // Haruki Murakami Sputnik Sweetheart // Olessya Turkina Soviet Space Dogs // Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood // Ada Limon Sharks in the Rivers // Marina Tsvetaeva from a letter to Boris Pasternak // @fateology muttnik // H.D. Loss // Lavinia Greenlaw For the First Dog in Space // Why Laika the Space Dog is All Animals (via lakia magazine)

[metamorphesque]

― Ada Limón, Sharks in the Rivers

[text ID: … dearest, can you / tell, I am trying / to love you less.]

[crystalclaire]

keep going into the world, bird,

startle the sad spring air with the whirring of your wings

“Bird Bound for a Good World” by Ada Limón

[muguetdemai]

Ada Limón, from Sharks in the Rivers; "Flood Coming"

[godsopenwound]

Ada Limón, “The Same Thing” from Sharks in the Rivers

[libraryleopard]

Poetry

Immersive poetry about the natural world, waterways, and the of intertwining of grief and joy

Favorite poems: "Body of Rivers," "The Russian River," "Marketing Life for Those of Us Left," "The Crossing," "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

[ebbarights]

i love this

[reasonsforhope]

“Famous more as a cultural feature than as a natural one, the pace at which the River Mersey is recovering to a fishy wonderland has ecologists stunned.

Splitting The Beatles’ home city of Liverpool in two, a recent survey found 37 different species of fish, more than two-and-a-half-times as many as were found in the previous survey 20 years ago.

Five different species of sharks were also found, along with huge eels and sea scorpions. ‘Holiday species’ as one local fishermen called them, like turbot, smelt, and cod, have also been caught.

Scientists at the Mersey Rivers Trust, a public/private charity-driven partnership for nature in the area believe that these species are breeding in the 3 mile-wide estuary.

The Liverpool Docks—the largest enclosed dock system in the world, were described by Herman Melville as comparable to the Pyramids in size and construction. As a result, industrialization heavily polluted the river. In 2009 however it was announced that the river was “cleaner than at any time since the industrial revolution” and is “now considered one of the cleanest [rivers] in the UK.”

“Over the last 30 years, there’s been this tremendous regeneration, this renewal of the River Mersey that started slowly but is now picking up pace. I still think we’re right at the beginning of something special,” said Mike Duddy at the Mersey Rivers Trust, who spoke to the Wirral Globe about the restoration...

Humpback whales were recently seen in Liverpool Bay for the first time since 1938, while the Mersey itself has also welcomed back otters, salmon, octopus, porpoises, and seals.

The Trust is currently compiling a species list, and is holding a competition with local fishermen to see how many can be recorded. Duddy expects to raise the count of 37 fish species to 50 next year.”

-via Good News Network, 1/23/23

[addsalwayssick]

sharks can’t read all the young dudes or crimson river or even art heist, baby so therefore they all live extremely sad lives

[jun0-th3m4d-m4n]

doodles from my sketchbook!!!! :3

‼️‼️‼️‼️BTW THE PAINTBRUSH IS NOT PAINTY FROM II ITS MY OC HER NAME IS NEL‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[typewriter-worries]

The New World of Beauty, Ada Limón

[ Text ID: Beauty will come to you, lay down at your feet, / put its wild hair in your lap. ]

[talos-stims]

do y'all remember / how deep it go?

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[maskrosfe]

Near doodles! Some Near thoughts... very grumpy as a child, before settling into a comfortable numbness of expression, but peaceful in sleep! Does that thing kids do where they sleep curled up like little bent pasta!

[crystalclaire]

Beauty will come to you, lay down at your feet, put its wild hair in your lap.

“The New World of Beauty” by Ada Limón

[sharks-are-friends-not-foes]

Daily Ray Fact:

The Ocellate River Ray, also known as the peacock-eye stingray or black river stingray, is a species of freshwater stingray. It is the most widespread, ranging throughout much of the Río de la Plata, Amazon, Mearim and Orinoco basins in tropical and subtropical South America.