![]() ![]() ![]() These gods may reflect too much the parts of you that were sacrificed early in life by the adults who couldn’t see you or, worse, could, and wanted those pieces for themselves. The wrestling itself is what is being asked of you. Some of them you may wrestle with until your dying breath. After three days in a room I’m ecstatic to never see again, mere hours before my return ship left its dock, I confusedly dragged myself to my nebulous destination, praying I wouldn’t find myself more lost than I already was. In Athens I’d known the safety and warmth of lovers’ arms and the familiar urban landscape that had hosted myself and my fellow performance art comrades serving lucha libre shock drag by day and dancing on tables in raki-soaked plazas till dawn.īut Naxos was serving stark isolation and an age-old sea beating its banks in sync with a melancholic madness gnawing from inside and outside my being. ![]() It’s a long, dusty road from port on the island of Naxos to the unsupervised ruins of the Temple of Dionysos. Her father calls her back to the breakfast their family is enjoying, her name ringing like ping-pong balls on cave walls unto this moment - “Ariadne.” You’re supposed to go there.”įast-forward one week, I’m at a cafe on the island of Amorgos watching a little girl play with the establishment’s resident cat. “You’re not supposed to leave Greece yet. The dreams sprinted in like water to high tide after my Skype call with a friend back in the States. ![]()
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