Our official Easter post is by the Anxious Black Woman. Read it, it is important. Meanwhile I am singing the first laisse of the Song of Roland, which I like.
Carles li reis, nostre emper[er]e magnes
Set anz tuz pleins ad estet en Espaigne:
Tresqu’en la mer cunquist la tere altaigne.
N’i ad castel ki devant lui remaigne;
Mur ne citet n’i est remes a fraindre,
Fors Sarraguce, ki est en une muntaigne.
Li reis Marsilie la tient, ki Deu nen aimet;
Mahumet sert e Apollin recleimet:
Nes poet guarder que mals ne l’i ateignet.
AOI.
I like it, among other reasons, because Old French is so strange to me, and the medievals, so eccentric. Here is reading support in English.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
A nicely eclectic post highly demonstrative of your amazing intellect, Professor Zero. Pointing simultaneously to the creative power of Xty and one of its most neuralgic points (the relationship with Islam) is a master stroke for this oh so Christian of holidays on which Jews were traditionally massacred in much of eastern Europe…Super work. This is why it is such a pleasure to read you; you have your feet in so many places.
Gracias, Servetus! I should write a whole post on the football mascot of the school where I studied. I ought to have chosen this mascot, as I understood Him, as my Al-Anon Higher Power – except that he would have been disallowed for his intellectualism. In my first job, at this elite SLAC which horrified me, I, who had never been a football or “Greek” person, found myself invoking that football mascot so I could write. Those things written then, invoking that mascot, are still my best work. I should start again. So, although it is REALLY silly, we will sing. [insert your favorite school’s Alma Mater].
More seriously, though, on these matters I have just read my Old Ship of Zion post, about one of the most important defining experiences of my life:
https://profacero.wordpress.com/2006/10/22/old-ship-of-zion/
If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
Yes! Great line!
Toni Morrison, Paradise …
Exquisite…
Thank you.
“ship of Zion”–also great writing. Tibi gratias ago.
S – you see that saying I have an “amazing intellect” is balm for old wounds – most people don’t get it. They’d call that post “disorganized” not well wrought or anything. Anyway I’ve now anonymized my first gushing response a bit. This is also why I like your blog, by the way … it’s so smart !!!
Poetryman – hi !!!
Thanks! I think we have similarly intuitive intellects: we see connections implicitly that others need made for them. So people who don’t think in this way need those pathways drawn out specifically, which may or may not be worth doing depending on how badly we want to communicate with them. Also, the poet in us doesn’t want to put a signpost on every connection but wants some things to remain implicit and thus artistic rather than scholarly. I think.