"Ravenna has today the only sixth-century Byzantine mosaics left in the world. It had been an outpost of the Byzantine Empire, and when the Iconoclast soldiers came on orders from the eighth-century puritan Emperor Leo, to destroy the church art, the city revolted." --Turkish Reflections

Other Renaissances.


in a fireman's line
a van unloading pumpkins
damascened memories move
in the sun
storebought ev'rything

waiting for my gap to come


An epiphany. As i have dreamed (to no avail) of the marriage of Rock and Neopaganism; and of the Coolness of Urban Peasants, so, for our survival, must Green be turned into something we long for and aspire to with our deepest instincts and our strongest will. And i believe this can happen. It's not such a leap, after all, from fashionably retro to sustainability. I call it Polyvocalic Retrofuturism. As if the Road Warrior made his own tire sandals. Amish chic (Miekal?). All it would take, would be the story (like Star Trek, Star Wars, or Lord of the Rings) that is a "peruke" (an exile-myth) that we want to be part of.

As if we had turned our TIME (in such short supply today) into OIL--when the OIL is gone, we'll get our TIME back.

...And really, don't countries become more interesting after they lose their empires? England didn't create Mod style & "British Invasion" rock till way in its dotage. The beautiful decay of Venice. The hip humbleness of the Dutch. What we lose in authority, we gain in patina.