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Notes—Murmurations.

"While conventionally we count five senses, the English Baroque librarian Robert Burton, in 1621, to give one example, counted eight senses in his encyclopaedic treatise The Anatomy of Melancholy (his Arab precedents in the anatomy of the mind need to be named – Ibn ’Arabi, Ibn Rushd [Averröes] and Ibn Sina, or Avicenna), because, following the philosopher Ibn ’Arabi, he included in his sensual anatomy the internal senses – memory, imagination and common sense. Or even eleven senses, because the three internal senses function differently in wakefulness and sleep, Burton[ ] points out." —Lisa Robertson

Ariel.

   "Melancholy days,
traveling, filled with longing—
if I could not hear
the lonely cry of the crane,
it would be too much for me to bear."

—tanka by Takayasu no Oshima
translated by: Sam Hamill via @evecastle.bsky.social

Kiko and the Lavender Moon.