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a special shoutout to darling @inclineto for today resuming a conversation we left off in 2012

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maybe?? some of you must be into knucklebones. for your review

trying to sculpt some knucklebones in nomad after more than a year away and it's making me feel like i've never seen any kind of Shape or Form before

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trying to sculpt some knucklebones in nomad after more than a year away and it's making me feel like i've never seen any kind of Shape or Form before

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moving the horatiana over here to spare you all: @fors-et-ratio

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thinking about H rereading namque ferunt luctu Cycnum Phaethontis amati / populeas inter frondes umbramque sororum / dum canit et maestum musa solatur amorem / canentem molli pluma duxisse senectam / liquentem terras et sidera voce sequentem—for they say Cycnus, in sorrow for his lover Phaeton, while he sang amid poplar branches and his sisters' shade, consoled his love-grief with music, and in white age put on soft feathers, leaving earth and chasing the stars with his voice—how lovely it must have been when written (that particular giddiness of being played with, the honour and the affection), and how bruising now, while working on the fourth book. 1.24 again, and anima fugiente vocabat.

and of course it's also H alluding to V (Aen. 10 180-something) alluding to H (Odes 2.20). so

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and of course it's also H alluding to V (Aen. 10 180-something) alluding to H (Odes 2.20). so

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more and better and queerer readings of 4.10 actually. like there's no unqueer reading of this poem addressed to a youth on the subject of his aging into adulthood (and indeed it is one of the odes that frequently went untranslated), but it's the um. the knowingness? the familiarity? the sense that the speaker recalls the loss of desirability / the position of being desired and feels it as a loss. bittersweet we overuse (thanks anne) but. and sure of course there's the reading that holds it as a mirror for the poet's surrender of the lyric crown and of course it is that too because as always with qhf. It's Both

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do u think guys in antiquity worried abt eromenos death

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i borrowed my mother's machine to sew a nice piece of silk and that thing threads its own needle? winds its own bobbins? auto-lock stitch AND it cuts the thread for you?? why are we talking about ai

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i'm not here really but Roman Silver Pin Surmounted by Hand Holding a Pomegranate, c. 2nd Century A.D. with a little snake wrapped round the wrist.

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Linda Pastan

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Unintentionally ominous sign a friend took a photo of at a JoAnn's that's closing.

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disiecti membra poetae monday

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Cy Twombly Untitled 1971