I became a Christian on January 9th, 1994, and was baptized a week later on the 16th. On April 19th, 2014, I was chrismated into the Faith of the Orthodox Church. My chrismation name is Januarius, and I have used its adjectival form as the screen name I sign to the poems most central to my purpose; poems in the Asian form are signed Kyakuchuu; and the other poems are, for the time being, are signed as Starward.
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Constantine Cavafy's poem, "Very Seldom," describes my situation, and my hope for my Ad Astra poems.
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My Haigo (or Haiku name), Kyakuchuu, means "footnote" in Japanese.*