@nomentantum.bsky.social
My interests include literature, art, Latin, Greek, Spanish, poetry, birds, and urban and landscape photography.
Alexandria
I scaled the cliff
Of marble steps
As sunlight leapt
Like flying fish
From off the water.
I marveled there
In noon’s bright glare
At the mirror’s glitter
On lofty Pharos.
I was fearful even
When I saw up in heaven
The image of Zeus.
#poetry
@nomentantum
I scaled the cliff
Of marble steps
As sunlight leapt
Like flying fish
From off the water.
I marveled there
In noon’s bright glare
At the mirror’s glitter
On lofty Pharos.
I was fearful even
When I saw up in heaven
The image of Zeus.
#poetry
@nomentantum
December 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Alexandria
I scaled the cliff
Of marble steps
As sunlight leapt
Like flying fish
From off the water.
I marveled there
In noon’s bright glare
At the mirror’s glitter
On lofty Pharos.
I was fearful even
When I saw up in heaven
The image of Zeus.
#poetry
@nomentantum
I scaled the cliff
Of marble steps
As sunlight leapt
Like flying fish
From off the water.
I marveled there
In noon’s bright glare
At the mirror’s glitter
On lofty Pharos.
I was fearful even
When I saw up in heaven
The image of Zeus.
#poetry
@nomentantum
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It's time to talk to you about my cat.
Vital Cat Update
It’s time to talk about my cat. To which you might be saying, “Chuck, I didn’t know you had a cat!” and I’d respond with, “I didn’t know I had a cat either…
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December 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
It's time to talk to you about my cat.
It’s been more than 10 years since I’ve read Moby Dick. My memory of it has holes, but I feel there must be some scene where Ishmael sees with complete clarity that Ahab is in fact barking mad, and he looks at his shipmates, laughs nervously, and says, “We’re all doomed, aren’t we?”
#literature
#literature
November 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
It’s been more than 10 years since I’ve read Moby Dick. My memory of it has holes, but I feel there must be some scene where Ishmael sees with complete clarity that Ahab is in fact barking mad, and he looks at his shipmates, laughs nervously, and says, “We’re all doomed, aren’t we?”
#literature
#literature
Speaking of #cats . A couple of months ago I was standing in my yard taking a picture of a hummingbird. A tiny ant crawls up my leg and bites me on the calf. Ouch. I go into the house and am showing the picture to my wife when the cat walks up and licks me on that exact spot where I was bitten. 1/
November 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Speaking of #cats . A couple of months ago I was standing in my yard taking a picture of a hummingbird. A tiny ant crawls up my leg and bites me on the calf. Ouch. I go into the house and am showing the picture to my wife when the cat walks up and licks me on that exact spot where I was bitten. 1/
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By the time James Hamilton Hay painted 'The Falling Star,' (1909) many European artists had popularised the idea a painting could function as a visual poem, something to be felt rather than read literally - a falling star was a common device in Victorian and Edwardian art.
November 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
By the time James Hamilton Hay painted 'The Falling Star,' (1909) many European artists had popularised the idea a painting could function as a visual poem, something to be felt rather than read literally - a falling star was a common device in Victorian and Edwardian art.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
October 30, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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From the streets of Mexico City to the Argentine pampas, discover six Latin-American photographers this #HispanicHeritageMonth.
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October 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
From the streets of Mexico City to the Argentine pampas, discover six Latin-American photographers this #HispanicHeritageMonth.
www.getty.edu/news/latin-a...
www.getty.edu/news/latin-a...
Even among birds
There are those who
Leave on errands, never
To return.
The timbre of calls
For the missing
Is different, insistent.
#smallpoemsunday
There are those who
Leave on errands, never
To return.
The timbre of calls
For the missing
Is different, insistent.
#smallpoemsunday
August 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Even among birds
There are those who
Leave on errands, never
To return.
The timbre of calls
For the missing
Is different, insistent.
#smallpoemsunday
There are those who
Leave on errands, never
To return.
The timbre of calls
For the missing
Is different, insistent.
#smallpoemsunday
Went out today in the 100-degree late August heat here in southern Arizona to have a look around and see whom I could find: a great egret, a pacific-slope flycatcher (migrating through), a broad-billed hummingbird, and an American avocet. #birds
August 31, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Went out today in the 100-degree late August heat here in southern Arizona to have a look around and see whom I could find: a great egret, a pacific-slope flycatcher (migrating through), a broad-billed hummingbird, and an American avocet. #birds
August 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This is a subadult Rufous Hummingbird. They aren’t resident here in southern Arizona but appear during the fall migration as they make their way from Canada and the PNW to winter in Mexico. This one is perched in a desert willow, an indigenous catalpa with purple flowers. #birds #poetry
August 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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August 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
When I was young I was indifferent to flowers. Then in my 50s a blue bergamot blossom in my overgrown yard opened the azure gates, and I’ve loved them ever since. The flowers in front of the ocotillo are Caesalpinia Pulcherrima, a common ornamental here in Arizona, native to the Caribbean.
#flowers
#flowers
July 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
When I was young I was indifferent to flowers. Then in my 50s a blue bergamot blossom in my overgrown yard opened the azure gates, and I’ve loved them ever since. The flowers in front of the ocotillo are Caesalpinia Pulcherrima, a common ornamental here in Arizona, native to the Caribbean.
#flowers
#flowers
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June 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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A Courtyard in Delft at Evening: a Woman spinning Pieter de Hooch, 1657. (Royal Collection Trust, HM CIII)
June 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
A Courtyard in Delft at Evening: a Woman spinning Pieter de Hooch, 1657. (Royal Collection Trust, HM CIII)
May 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Joshua Clover, RIP
April 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Joshua Clover, RIP
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Earth Day Poetry 2: Mary Oliver again, in"I Looked Up," linking the stunning, exciting, mutual spotting of a red tailed hawk as touching something larger in the universe.
April 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Earth Day Poetry 2: Mary Oliver again, in"I Looked Up," linking the stunning, exciting, mutual spotting of a red tailed hawk as touching something larger in the universe.
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The Old North Church, Boston, Massachusetts. Where 250 years ago tomorrow the lantern signals were given from the tower to alert the colonists if the British were coming by land or sea. The first step in fighting an authoritarian king. #photography #art #monotone #monochrome #OldNorthChurch #Boston
April 18, 2025 at 4:10 AM
The Old North Church, Boston, Massachusetts. Where 250 years ago tomorrow the lantern signals were given from the tower to alert the colonists if the British were coming by land or sea. The first step in fighting an authoritarian king. #photography #art #monotone #monochrome #OldNorthChurch #Boston
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Nanzenji Temple with cherry blossoms 🌸🌸
📸 04/03/2025
📍Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City
#photography #japan #temple #kyoto #cherryblossom
📸 04/03/2025
📍Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City
#photography #japan #temple #kyoto #cherryblossom
April 5, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Nanzenji Temple with cherry blossoms 🌸🌸
📸 04/03/2025
📍Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City
#photography #japan #temple #kyoto #cherryblossom
📸 04/03/2025
📍Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City
#photography #japan #temple #kyoto #cherryblossom