Things to view, things to think about.

Sub Rosa’s post on floral aesthetica here.

Emily Dickinson’s herbarium, thanks to Harvard (it takes a few seconds to load) here.

William Bartram‘s 18th-century drawings of American flora.

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Lovely words from Lesley Wheeler, and so true for me, too: “…reading and writing puts me in an honest place. Plus, while poems contain struggle of all kinds, they also constitute separate worlds it can be a great relief to enter, because good poems are not unjust or disruptive of bodily integrity.”