#this is based on a conversation i had with a byzantine and medieval pottery expert the other day

[plangentia]

the streets of corinth

they say pausanias came here once

as did saint paul.

but what about all the ordinary people

that crowded the forum

and the cramped complexes of the city.

what of those normal people that time simply just

forgot?

they proclaim that diogenes was born here

and the greek temple itself.

but what about the churches that they bulldozed

in their search for truth and history and civilisation.

did the builders of these churches not live here too?

they are not part of your history,

i suppose.

the wind blows across the divots of the town,

and rolls away the dust.

it settles on your precious temples and

glistening monuments, murkying them

as you have history. and lying on that now

naked patch of ground is

a single sherd of coarse pottery

unearthed.