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2010.03.16 : This is What You Shall Do (Commandments Reimagined)

With a hat tip to Andrew Sullivan, here are Christopher Hitchens's Ten Commandments Reimagined.... (read more)

2008.03.18 : Fuches Quotes 12

Since the periodicity of my long-running quotations series has been getting asymptotic with infinity, here are the quotes that have been piling up since the last edition... (read more)

2007.05.12 : Shit I See Daily
Walking Back From the Health Club
Well, Weekends, Anyway, These Days

"Calm soul of all things! make it mine / To feel, amid the city's jar, / That there abides a peace of thine, / Man did not make, and cannot mar." - Matthew Arnold... (read more)

2006.07.07 : 2005.07.07
The Killers, The Fallen, And The Rest Of UsThe Killers, The Fallen, And The Rest Of Us

I am not yet born; O hear me, / Let not the man who is beast or who thinks he is God / Come near me.... (read more)

2005.10.26 : You and I Behind the Veil are Past

I saw my first poppy today, while running around the edge of Trafalgar Square. I saw three poppies on my run. The first roasted chestnut vendors are also out, as of last week.... (read more)

2005.09.11 : 2001.09.11

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honour, duty, mercy, hope."... (read more)

2005.08.15 : RIP Percy

"From too much love of living, / From hope and fear set free, / We thank with brief thanksgiving / Whatever gods may be / That no life lives for ever; / That dead men rise up never; / That even the weariest river / Winds somewhere safe to sea." ... (read more)

2004.04.12 : Sunlight on the Garden

"My world back after a year, my lost lost world / Like a cropping deer strayed near my path again, /Bewaring the mind's least clutch, turning, I kissed her... (read more)

2004.03.16 : Sunlight on the Garden
(Spain Photos Complet)

The opening poem (one of my all-time faves) couldn't be more apt. It went through my head so many times as Josh and I traveled through Spain. The third verse haunted me as we climbed up into the sky, amid the awesome construction of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia.... (read more)

2004.01.11 : One Louis MacNeice Poem, Two Passages from Jeanette Winterson, and Eleven Melancholy Pictures

The sunlight on the garden / Hardens and grows cold, / We cannot cage the minute / Within its nets of gold,... (read more)

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	Dispatches tagged as: poetry (10) 2010.03.16 : This is What You Shall Do (Commandments Reimagined) With a hat tip to Andrew Sullivan, here are Christopher Hitchens's Ten Commandments Reimagined.... (read more) 2008.03.18 : Fuches Quotes 12 Since the periodicity of my long-running quotations series has been getting asymptotic with infinity, here are the quotes that have been piling up since the last edition... (read more) 2007.05.12 : Shit I See Daily Walking Back From the Health Club Well, Weekends, Anyway, These Days "Calm soul of all things! make it mine / To feel, amid the city's jar, / That there abides a peace of thine, / Man did not make, and cannot mar." - Matthew Arnold... (read more) 2006.07.07 : 2005.07.07 The Killers, The Fallen, And The Rest Of UsThe Killers, The Fallen, And The Rest Of Us I am not yet born; O hear me, / Let not the man who is beast or who thinks he is God / Come near me.... (read more) 2005.10.26 : You and I Behind the Veil are Past I saw my first poppy today, while running around the edge of Trafalgar Square. I saw three poppies on my run. The first roasted chestnut vendors are also out, as of last week.... (read more) 2005.09.11 : 2001.09.11 "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honour, duty, mercy, hope."... (read more) 2005.08.15 : RIP Percy "From too much love of living, / From hope and fear set free, / We thank with brief thanksgiving / Whatever gods may be / That no life lives for ever; / That dead men rise up never; / That even the weariest river / Winds somewhere safe to sea." ... (read more) 2004.04.12 : Sunlight on the Garden "My world back after a year, my lost lost world / Like a cropping deer strayed near my path again, /Bewaring the mind's least clutch, turning, I kissed her... (read more) 2004.03.16 : Sunlight on the Garden (Spain Photos Complet) The opening poem (one of my all-time faves) couldn't be more apt. It went through my head so many times as Josh and I traveled through Spain. The third verse haunted me as we climbed up into the sky, amid the awesome construction of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia.... (read more) 2004.01.11 : One Louis MacNeice Poem, Two Passages from Jeanette Winterson, and Eleven Melancholy Pictures The sunlight on the garden / Hardens and grows cold, / We cannot cage the minute / Within its nets of gold,... (read more)