Preterition

Given today’s date, and the fact that I’m spending the holiday alone, I was thinking about posting a translation of another bittersweet (well, OK, perhaps more bitter than sweet) Catullus lyric. So I was looking through old notebooks for translations I’d done in the Latin poetry seminar I took a while ago, and in the back of one of them, I found these questions that I’d copied from somewhere – I can’t recall where, but they seem to be about writing. I had to grin, because taken together, I think they make a fine little found poem of questions to ask about your relationship. Enjoy.

Valentine Questions

Have you failed To imagine ways to create tension? Have you used dreams Ineffectively? Have you made insufficient use Of irony? Have you drifted Too early Into lyrical passages?