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You Have the Teeth of a Much Older Man.
A Cautionary Sonnet
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Nolan's Oppenheimer
The Palaestra visits the movies!
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Prose Translation
An interpretation of Sonnet 73
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Tabula and Tabernacle: Annotation
A few, brief thoughts on why and how to annotate
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Nativity
A stranger paces down the colonnade, His beard in smoke. I wonder if he knows I'm there, but now he walks away again. Surely on Christmas Eve, at nine…
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On Pythia's New Toy
A cure for your post-Christmas blues
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Dawn-Bringer
Encompassed by our foes, Our hearts beat louder still, For every fighting comrade knows He waits beyond the hill! The Lion races on! The Lion races on…
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A Postmodern's Farewell to Love
I wished, my dear, your words were true. But certain as the sky is blue You lied to me. We’re past repair. Oh to go back! It isn’t fair. Why should a…
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