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The Natural History Museum ha[s] put a T-Rex in a Christmas jumper.

"There was one guy who edited and published War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Fathers and Sons: Mikhail Katkov." —Hyun Woo Kim via

“I Voted” stickers starting to accumulate at the Alex Pretti Memorial in Whittier, Minneapolis.

"Two Graves

Alone in Rome, I watch ash land on my dress.
Charred scraps float by and barely miss my drink.
The scrollwork of smoke rising from the west
bears an acrid stink.

One in shade and one in sun, as I recall.
And each had a friend to keep him company,
buried later – Severn, fearless and faithful,
and wild Trelawny.

Cicadas shook the trees like maracas.
The ring road sang with traffic.
On the enclosure wall, graffiti was
colorful and graphic.

Shelley’s epitaph took the impersonal view.
Keats’s stone was medicinally bitter.
Like crushed cans of Mountain Dew,
the pigeons’ necks glitter.

'The only true protest is beauty', says an ad
on the piazza wall. People stop their cars
to film the smoke, as if it had
style to rival ours.

Orpheus is dead. His music could bewitch
the rocks, the pines, all creatures, even lions.
No, lions are obvious. It’s the ostrich
he sang to. The shy ones."

—Ange Mlinko via

Walinska often paid her doctors' bills with paintings.