When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things. The tattered outlaw of the earth Of ancient crooked will: Starve, scourge, deride…
Conversations about Arcadia
Arcadia is home to many famous ideas and people. In modern times, anyone with a surname ending in -poulos is usually an entrepreneur extraordinaire. Both in Greece and as the Diaspora that flowed out of Greece to make a new life in the States, Australia and Africa. Arcadia is home to the uprising of the…
Conversations about Travel
Old Man Simbonis told me this when I went to Greece this year. Somehow I remember him telling me this whenever we spoke: “Travel broadens the mind.” He has had a stroke now and is bed bound. His mischievous eyes always alert sparkle when he gets visitors. Tiny drops of tears from in the corners…
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