"The Lightning, like an Arab, crossed / The moon's dark path on high"

[larryhammer]

Been a while since I linked a weather timelapse: Chase, this one being thunderstorms of the Plains States. Storms! (via)

10 medieval illuminations of butt-licking cats. Why yes, monks did draw from life. (via)

Over in poetry, I recently did a week of women poets from the Kokinshu who are not Ono no Komachi, including an empress, an imperial concubine, a lady-in-waiting, an entertainer, and an otherwise unknown aristocrat. I've posted all these translations here before, but not threaded on such a string: Ise, mother of Ono no Chifuru, Mikuni no Machi/Ki no Kaneko, Shirome, and Fujiwara no Takaiko/Nijô Empress.

---L.

Subject quote from "The Tree of Rivilin," Ebenezer Elliott.

Comments

[cat-i-th-adage.livejournal.com]

The Licking Cat of the Apocalypse looked so... affronted at being disturbed.

I'll look up the poets, thanks.

[larryhammer]

Affronted is a good way to put it.

---L.