July 5 ♣ Still marooned. We were roused out of troubled sleep this morning by the twittering of birds. They are of a kind unknown to us; their bills are dark purple and are quite transparent in a certain light—creepy to see their tongues and teeth mangling the tiny gitte-bugs which is the chief fare of these creatures. Their back sides are bright orange, and two tiny black spots there placed look for all the world like eyes.

Kenneth Patchen – The Journal of Albion Moonlight (pg. 90) [sic] (via st1ph1n)