I write poems, ride trains, and play uke. Just finished PhD on Plutarch's Pythian dialogues at @UniofReading, now teaching Latin at prep school.
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ALT Foxglove Country Sometimes I like to hide in the word foxgloves - in the middle of foxgloves. The xgl is hard to say, out of the England of its harbouring word. Alone it becomes a small tangle, a witch's thimble, hard-to-toll bell, elvish door to a door. Xgl a place with a locked beginning then a snag, a gl like the little Englands of my grief, a knotted dark that locks light in glisten, glow, glint, gleam and Oberon's banks of eglantine which closes in on the opening of Gulliver whose shrunken gul says 'rose' in my fatherland. Meanwhile, in the motherland, the xg is almost the thumb of a lost mitten, an impossible interior, deeper than forests and further in. And deeper inland is the gulp, the gulf, the gap, the grip that goes before love.
ALT a medieval drawing of two hedgehogs with long, pointy snouts and beady black eyes eating grapes off of a vine above their heads
ALT Give the hounds short names, so as to be able to call to them easily. The following are the right sort: Psyche, Thymus, Porpax, Styrax, Lonche, Lochus, Phrura, Phylax, Taxis, Xiphon, Phonax, Phlegon, Alce, Teuchon, Hyleus, Medas, Porthon, Sperchon, Orge, Bremon, Hybris, Thallon, Rhome, Antheus, Hebe, Getheus, Chara, Leusson, Augo, Polys, Bia, Stichon, Spude, Bryas, Oenas, Sterrus, Crauge, Caenon, Tyrbas, Sthenon, Aether, Actis, Aechme, Noes, Gnome, Stibon, Horme.
ALT A very simple medieval drawing of a mole with a faint smile on its face
