METRICAL HAIKU

LACUNAE
Lacuna praesens
vertice inest, Satyre,
et in poesi.

HOLES
There’s a hole present
there in your noggin, Satyr,
and in my verse.

EFFODIENDAE
Versus cerebro,
corpora naufragio:
aequale pensum?

TOUGH WORK
Verses from a brain,
bodies from a shipwreck:
comparable tasks?

EPIGRAM

MONUMENTA
Tempore contritas has contemplare ruinas.
   Aedificata hominum posthabitura cadunt.
En! Nodosa tenax quam saecula oliva perennat;
   Naturae lente diu monumenta manent.

MONUMENTS
Consider these ruins eroded by time;
   the disregarded constructions of men fall.
Lo! the knotty olive, how tenacious she survives;
   Pliantly the monuments of nature last and last.

VARIA

ALMA AURA (Dactylic Hexameter)
Accede Aura mihi et mulce mihi fervida membra
   Expellens aestum culicesque omnes futuentes.

KINDLY BREEZE
Come to me, Aura, and sooth my burning limbs,
   driving away heat and all the fucking bugs.

VITICULA (Elegiac Couplet)
Quis te viticulam tam proviso mihi sevit?
   Sub te restinguam desidiosa sitim.

Who, little vine, planted you so providently for me?
   Under you, idle, I shall slake my thirst.