Look what rymenhild made me! (That's the Hebrew letter "nun," for anyone trying to figure out why a cursive I goes with "Nadav.") The text comes from my Gashlycrumb Torah poem, which I recommend to anyone who doesn't read my Real Blog but enjoys mild Bible-related geekery.

And Judith pointed out the equally important, as she puts it, "metrosexual" ( Read more... )

Poetry meme from all over my friendslist -- pass on a passage of your choosing. Or, in my case, the original and the translation. (Yes, that's cheating, but I'm seeing mostly English poems, and I thought it'd be fun to shake that up a bit. Also, I think the translation is absolutely super up to the last quatrain, where it starts losing me.)

( Spanish by Borges, English by Wilbur. )