Nehaveigur

Notes on reading, science and the outdoors

Poetry

  • Exploration

    We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for…

  • Placebo

    No can do. I am doctor not of medicine, but Latinity. I am the future, singular, indicative. The first person. What do you take me…

  • Early Bird

    Oh, if you’re a bird, be an early bird And catch the worm for your breakfast plate. If you’re a bird, be an early early…

  • Nature’s Infinite Book of Secrecy

    In nature’s infinite book of secrecy A little I can read. William Shakespeare

  • The Battle of the Bulge

    To hell with you, ignoble paunch, abhorrent in my sight! I gaze at your rotundity, and savage is my frown. I’ll rub you and I’ll…

  • The Witch

    Toil and grow rich,What’s that but to lieWith a foul witchAnd after, drained dry,To be broughtTo the chamber whereLies one long soughtWith despair?William Butler Yeats:…