cryptomnesia:

In the end what can I do with you—tenderness
tenderness for birds and for people for a stone
you should sleep in a palm in the eye’s depths
that’s your place may you be woken by no one

You spoil everything you get it back to front
you contract a tragedy into a pocket romance
you change the high-toned flight of a thought
into sobbing and exclamations into moaning

To describe is to murder because it’s your role
to sit in the darkness of a cold and empty hall
to sit solitary where reason blithely rattles on
with mist in a marble eye tears running down

Tenderness, Zbigniew Herbert.

translation Alissa Valles.

HEAD MOVEMENTS OF A SIX-NOTE COO CALL

Martha Whitson, “Courtship Behavior of the Greater Roadrunner,” inThe Living Bird Fourteenth Annual of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology,Douglas A. Lancaster, ed., 1975

Each drawing represents the production of one note. The solid line depicts the head just before the note begins and the dotten line depicts the head’s position at the end of the note. The solid horizontal lines serve as reference points to note the slight head lowering with each of the early notes.