Analect 2.650x

2 February 2010. Hint of sun through white curtains at dawn...

While the two dudes converse--that's Stalin and Voroshilov, of course, their military collars and heavy hand... One white pinky extending downwards, the other, relaxed, in an embrace of fate... Not without planning, however. The pyatiletka, Five-Year plan, sounding almost tender in the Russian--a sly diminutive, as with a rabbit, or a child...

The solo bird on half-misplaced ring, a shepherd with staff. To guide the sheep, to find them even. Open fields...