τὸν ἐπὶ Ὑακίνθῳ λεγόμενον Ἀπόλλωνος ἔρωτα ὑποσημαίνων

[sovay]

Happy birthday, rushthatspeaks, my best cousin, my blue-haired love. We live in a world where people make photoshoots of the death of Hyakinthos in Apollo's arms.

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[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Many happy returns!

[sovay]

Many happy returns!

We (me, rushthatspeaks, jinian, gaudior, who organized the outing) went to Providence for dinner and a brief amount of WaterFire before the smoke and the crowds got to be too much. I made a chocolate mousse and chocolate meringue cake. Rush said it was a good birthday, so I'm happy.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

That does sound excellent. Hooray for good birthdays!

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

I need to dig out my poetry notebooks from sixteen years back and see if that bit I wrote about these two was any good.

[sovay]

I need to dig out my poetry notebooks from sixteen years back and see if that bit I wrote about these two was any good.

Yes, you do!

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

OK, it's transcribed but I'm having a devil of a time figuring out where I originally meant the line breaks to go, as the only copy I had was written in a squarish one-off chapbook over some cliche-verre illustrations.

Also, either there's a bit where Hyacinthus breaks off and addresses the audience directly in prose, or my scansion and rhymes in that passage really suck.

[sovay]

Also, either there's a bit where Hyacinthus breaks off and addresses the audience directly in prose, or my scansion and rhymes in that passage really suck.

I'm willing to believe it was prose.

[muffyjo]

That is lovely, thank you for sharing!

[sovay]

That is lovely, thank you for sharing!

Welcome!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

wow to the wowth! That's a pretty cool photo.

[sovay]

wow to the wowth! That's a pretty cool photo.

I know it's not water hyacinths in the classical telling, it's the windflower type of hyacinth, but I don't care. These work well for me.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

totally agree

[genarti]

Yes, thoroughly agreed.