Forest animals in a painting titled, "Coastal Stream." The painting read:

Take me down through forest light
when sun makes wood grow tall
but water carries me away.

A deer and sea birds in a painting of a beach, was titled, "Sandy Beach." The painting read:

Where the sun must crawl and seek me,
scatter me among the beach jewels
where I am but a filament, splinter, nub.

A painted bird hovered over surf in a painting titled, "Rocky Beach." That painting read:

Where the last cliff kneels to salt,
shatter me like a moonlit wave.
Something tugs me toward the deep.

An otter floated among kelp in a painting titled, "Kelp Forest." That painting read:

Bring be home in sunlit spangle yet again.
In kelp, I come back to my forest ways,
alive in the dancing city.

A whale and seals were part of a painting titled, "Open Sea." That painting read:

Let me be pure salt spirit where whale can float
and sing, where plankton drift, and I am free
no road, no sign, no boundary.
--Kim Stafford

A sign hung in front of an empty exhibit. It read:

For Your Information
This Animal Is
Temporarily Off
Exhibit
Thought You'd Like To Know
Primate Keepers
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