MESOWEB

Laying on my back in the small room

that I should be using as a wardrobe closet

I read about the different strategies of Piedras Negras

and Yaxchilan; how the latter build defenses

on its borders, and its enemy up-river did not.

All the 'least cost' routes open, Piedras Negras

- the vanquisher of Tonina - fell

to Yaxchilan and it's

last king; a Pyrrhic victory which

bought - what? Twenty years perhaps, thirty?

I don't recall; when did Yaxchilan fall? 830? 840?

Almost a life-time then, thirty years.

Almost a life-time, now. Six died of cold

in Chiapas; indigenous - of course. (This

I read from retweet by Ubique.) And

I, in my wardrobe, my back on

blue jeans bag full of

old magazines of geography and astronomy,

my feet as cold as the snow outside,

blood, essence of soul

in Mesoamerica, so slowly flowing

- and how fast waters at the rapids of Usumacinta,

the whirlpools at Piedras Negras.

13.12.2017