It's official summer t-shirt day now. Art from the opening of one of the best books ever; Population: 485 by Michael Perry. An author from near where I grew up.

The shirt shows "a circa 1880’s gravure rendering by Smeeton & Tilly of a statue of Phoebe. A Titan goddess of the moon, worshipped by ancient Greeks, her name derives from the Greek for shining, bright, and radiant."

The words make up part of her form.

They read:

"Summer here comes on like a zaftig hippie chick, jazzed on chlorophyll and flinging fistfuls of butterflies to the sun. The swamps grow spongy and pungent. Standing water goes warm and soupy, clotted with frog eggs and twitching with larvae. Along the ditches, heron-legged stalks of canary grass shoot six feet high and unfurl seed plumes. In the fields, the clover pops its blooms and corn trembles for the sky."
- Micheal Perry, Population: 485

Beautiful poster here:
https://sneezingcow.com/product/population-485-summer-poster/

And, the awesome book:
https://sneezingcow.com/product/new-edition-population485/

#books #bookstodon #art #WI

That feeling when on vacation you find three pre-rolls that you had stashed months before in your luggage but forgot you had packed. Sweet. Nice.

BTW, the #TreyAnastasio show in #Bayfield, #WI was simply fantastic. The best thing I have seen since the pandemic.

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Queer Liberation March takes the streets in Madison, WI for 2nd year

Madison, WI – Several hundred Madisonians took to the streets on Saturday, June 13, for the second annual Queer Liberation March, where they uplifted demands to defend bodily autonomy.

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https://fightbacknews.org/articles/queer-liberation-march-takes-the-streets-in-madison-wi-for-2nd-year