Septembre
September Septiembre Settembre 2015 Iznik Calendar hanging on the kitchen wall.
‘Plat aux trois tulipes et jacinthes’, the tulips spotted burnt red, hyacinths
little bluebells. (Detail, vers 1570) it says in brackets, a good year for the
Ottomans, they started the conquest of Cyprus. We’ve never heard the end of it,
tulips and hyacinths. So many ways of describing the globe, too. So many ways
of saying God without saying God. Iznik, ancient Nicaea, serves evidence. The
calendar is ‘Printed in Europe, in accordance with environmental standards and
on paper from sustainably managed forests.’ What does it mean, ‘sustainably’?
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