barrel
of buffalo tongues for the Viceroy in Mexico. Cibolero,
Buffalo Hunter. From cíbola, Spanish for “bison,” from Zuni, tzibola.
Cibola, the city of gold that was never found.
GODS AND EMPIRE
1. XENOPHANES FLEES BEFORE THE PERSIANS
If horses and oxen had hands and could draw pictures,
their gods would look remarkably like horses and oxen.
Xenophanes of Colophon, ca. 570–480 BCE
All day we trudged north along the Aegean, cold rain
squalling, whipping up whitecaps, churning sandbars,
eating the beach, rocking pines, hissing sand-sleet.
But the hardest storms came at night, scouring us
huddled in dunes as strikes of violet light flashed
off the cliffs, igniting our faces when thunder boomed
and we were caught out not by pursuers, but by the gods
the soldiers whined, as they crouched under leather shields,
like dogs in the deafening downpour. By morning,
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