Poti-1

by | Oct 25, 2015 | Poti

Fragments of Poti The birds wheel inland from the sea, passing low over Lake Paliastomi. Lifting her face to the rain, Chalciope would have seen them, known them all, and told some fanciful story or other to her sister of their heroic flight, of their comings and...

Poti-2

by | Oct 25, 2015 | Poti

Fragments of Poti The light flashes twice flashes every 7.5 seconds, first white then red, reaching far out across the sea. The glass is from the Fresnel works in Paris, with concentric rings of ‘stepped’ glass, thick ridges in the lens surface which bend the light...

Poti-3

by | Oct 25, 2015 | Poti

Fragments of Poti In the Eastern War, the Turks came again, surging through the scented, warm air. There are texts in the Qur’aan and Sunnah that prescribe the manumission of a slave to expiate sin, yet they send shiploads of captured children back to Constantinople...

Poti-4

by | Oct 25, 2015 | Poti

Fragments of Poti Here he could imagine a real city arising from these pestilential swamps. He’s a daydreamer of a rare practical kind. When he closes his eyes he no longer beholds a riverbank strewn with broken planks but sees three new bridges. On the marsh, he...

Poti-5

by | Oct 25, 2015 | Poti

Fragments of Poti The Argo is the first ship in recorded history (at least, in western history) to be named. The ship was built with help of the Goddess Athena, who inserted a fragment of the sacred century old Dodon oak, so that it could speak and render prophecies,...

Poti-6

by | Oct 25, 2015 | Poti

Fragments of Poti He looks over to the young man at the end of the table and tells a story of that time. You see how it was, he says, Temo was a boy of six, his older sister had a baby, we needed to get a family cradle from Guria... In the early 1990s, everything was...