...except the sudden restlessness of a January night.
***

Only at midnight

When the hands of the clock stood up tall

Did we guess how large

The world was

When the round curve

Of the moon in unbroken deeps

Shivered the scudding clouds

And burst past branches

With a revelation:

The loneliness betwixt

Might be, not in her,

But us. It may be we

(An old deep legend ( Read more... )

1) first of all, clearly the most relevant thing about the last month of my life is that I am currently wearing a striped nightcap that is edged with fur and has bells at the end. This is because one of my housemates, Rachael, is awesome and made me one over break!
2) classes start on Wednesday: I'm taking intermediate German (GESUNDHEIT!), Artes ( Read more... )

It occurs to me that it has been a very, very long time since I updated. And VPA peeps-I miss you all so much.

It’s November. The time when you start to wonder if you ever weren’t studying. I stayed in Hillsdale over break to work on papers; I have an 11 page draft on the Forum of Augustus and a couple pages on a modern short story (though not much ( Read more... )

So, in case any of you don't know, I'm off to Turkey w/ the honors program tomorrow....ergo if/when you try to call me, you will be receiving a very lovely voicemail until about the 30th of May ( Read more... )

“Home is where we start from.”

We scanned the stars, but found in them

Scarce food for such a hunger. In our pools

They were no nearer, but they were pure

And so satisfied, for a while, our thirst

For the bright eternal. By day our visions

Mocked us: they had not the gentle tangibility

Of roses, or goblets, or our roofs

At evening when the patterned ( Read more... )

Odyssey

I want the spring again, but not this falling.

Or rather both, without the return: each season

Shows us not enough, birth ending

In death, hearts renewed and dried

And restless in the chill October-

Seeking in vain to be shattered

Finally

Into joy.

Feet wander under a cerulean sky, alone.

Vermillion hands caress the wind with whispers

Of some fierce ( Read more... )

I am like a veritable Jack Bauer. ...except I haven't been saving America every ten minutes. Details.
Speaking of which. Tony. What are you doing, man. Don't do this to me. I thought you were on our side.
ANYWAY
I have been very pleased by things today. Here they are.
There were strawberries at dinner. Real, whole, ripe strawberries with delicious, ( Read more... )

I have been posting most sporadically this semester...but scenes such as the one outside tonight are not such as can be kept to oneself. Long story short: We just had a surprise April snowfall. Short story longer:

I just walked back through one campus and it was possibly the most beautiful I have ever seen it. 3am, early April, and four inches of ( ( Read more... )

A walk back from late night Latin studying, and a new world of fresh fluffy snow to walk through: half an hour's scribbling later, and here we are. Just thoughts, scattered and free as the snow though considerably less delicate and tragically less graceful. Perhaps I shall someday harmonize them into poetry. perhaps not.
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The ways that had become ( Read more... )

The world hangs gently

Between the stars’ bright eyes

And your dragon breath

On the winter air

Walk softly, lest you wake

Our Savior, coming now with the frost

Sparkling hard on the fall ground

(your heart too frosted, and beautiful

In its breaking, His breaking, and

Rising again)

Through these half-fallen leaves

And branches bare in the restless crisp

Of ( Read more... )