hehe now that I have a journal again, I'm slowly getting reacquainted with my HTML skills...it took me a embarrassingly long time to make the embellishments (I kept forgetting to close my tags...my old high school computer teacher would be so disappointed). anyway, it is a pale imitation compared to a live reading (love 'em, but haven't gone for a loooong time): for me, poetry is like music and I either have to read it aloud, or have somebody else do so, otherwise I get distracted with something else that either makes noise or is shiny..or both. :P