Path of Rain Gods and other found poems

Squirms

A little drawing and some snakes

Headless Gibbon

Polar Bear Cub

Today's find: an exquisite 3 day old polar bear cub in a jar.

Floating bells of crystal

Survival of the cutest

The feather-footed jerboa wins the prize for the cutest specimen in the Natural History Collections

The Sunlike Eye

Goethe maintained that even the eye we use to observe the world 'owes its existence to the light. Out of indifferent animal organs the light produces an organ corresponding to itself; and so the eye is formed by this light for the light so that the inner light may meet the outer...If the eye were not sunlike how could we perceive the light?'