Category Archives: Poetry

Invisibles Lines, Local Realities

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Uncomely and Broken

On a lovely day last month, I was driving home from Chattanooga and decided to take a detour off I-24, to satisfy a simple, geeky desire to stand at the precise point that divides Tennessee from Alabama and Georgia, as … Continue reading →

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A Dozen Days Later

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Uncomely and Broken

When I first heard about the explosions at the Boston Marathon, I scoured the internet till I found a live feed and called my wife.  “What!? WHAT?!”  We were both horrified.  “This was part of the reason we moved to … Continue reading →

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Protected: Tiresias, Throbbing Between Two Lives

Posted on March 30, 2013 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: Considering Caesar

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Uncomely and Broken

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Nubibus Atris

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Uncomely and Broken

Nubibus atris condita nullum fundere possunt sidera lumen. So run the first four lines of the final poem in Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy, Book 1. These eight words, so skillfully arranged, convey with precision a primary theme of the Consolatio‘s … Continue reading →

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O Stelliferi Conditor Orbis

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Uncomely and Broken

In the Medieval Latin class I’m teaching this term, we’re now reading Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy. (If you’ve not read it before, stop wasting time on-line and read it now.)  The Consolatio is partially written in prose, partially in verse, … Continue reading →

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Doggerel and Dogs in the Snow

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Uncomely and Broken

In the back of one of my college notebooks, I once wrote a piece of doggerel that a friend of mine found and would recite when the spirit moved him. It does my asthma little good To go cavorting through … Continue reading →

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Protected: Render unto Facebook: The Classical Background of the “Page 56” Meme

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: Eagle and Child

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

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Piper at the Gate

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

I swear this is the last post about The Wind in the Willows, but I came across a picture on my hard drive that I’d taken this summer of an Oxford doorpost, and it reminded me of a famous passage … Continue reading →

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