"Inaction is a horrot on the mind Forever acting. And it will not stop Stopping. Your body hangs from a tree-top Standing on level grou...

Invitation Come be with me and be my best          Decision, quality and chance, My first choice now, my last request,          Resort, reso...

Lines Written on a Paper Napkin Tossed into the Fireplace Mad paper, go, and on the firewood burn. Spew these rough lines out in a cough o...

                               (an earlier draft of this poem appeared in Word's Faire ) "Of god-ſent men embattail'd under ſta...

Dice From There:  Two Sonnets for Mahmoud Darwish ( First Published in Brazen Head ) I. From There It was Mahmoud, of all who sing and die,...

(This sonnet first published in  Grand Little Things )  History offered her no hiding place From where the fingers of a ghoulish God Upon...

I've just got to get this out there, after seeing so many people make terrible assumptions about what rhymes can tell you about th...

Just a couple thoughts on the possible phonetic values of some English vowels in the transcriptions of the 17th century spelling ref...

Ex "Tragoedia Iulii Caesaris" Excerptum Scripsit Anglice Gulielmus Shakespeare (sive Hastiquatius) Vertit in senarios Latinos A.Z....

Carmen De Humpti Dumptii Obitu Sedebat Humptus Dumptius Olim in summo muro Cecedit Humptus Dumptius Casu damnose duro Cui Caesaris praefecti...

Vates Bellator Scripsit Anglice Thomas Morus ("The Minstrel Boy to the War is Gone) Vertit Latine A.Z. Foreman Puer vates vasit i...

Huic carmini mihi visum est necesse exstare Latine. Omnes autem versiones quas scrutatus sum iudicavi, ut benigne dicam, nullo prorsus pacto...

In 1617 one Robert Robinson, a kid who matriculated pensioner from Trinity Hall two years before, composed one of the most original works o...

The English language in the 16th century was a bit like Icelandic or Danish in the early 21st, in that very few people outside the British ...

"Some people labor under the impression that their language is superior to all others. This makes no sense. The aspects of superiority...

Below is yet another passage I managed to transcribe from the medieval Latin  Rosae Nomen  of Adso Mellicensis.  The figure of Salvatore i...

One thing I never understood about stories set in universes where vampires are real: why can’t humans just set up a bloodbank to meet vampi...

Some thoughts about the portrayal of poets and poetry in the Qur'an (first released as a  mega-thread on twitter ) Why are šāˁir and...

(Translation by yours truly) "The poet should avoid not only obscure and arcane words, but also those vernacular words banalized by ...

In illo uultu  ab odio philosophie  uastato conspexi primum imaginem Antichristi, qui non uenit de tribu Iude sicut simulauerint annunciato...