John Talbird

At the center of Amos Oz’s 1973 novel, Touch the Water, Touch the Wind, is a church fronted by “a small, rough-paved square, sagging toward the middle.” On the edge of this square, a pair of ancient horses …

I can hear Ted Koppel’s voice coming from somewhere, reporting on the violence that I’m seeing with my own eyes—terrorists shooting people with automatic weapons and throwing grenades. In a different dream, Audrey Hepburn attempts assassination.

i.Silks are stacked like a physical rainbow, designs like Sanskrit on water, cool luminosity begging for a caress between thumb and finger. The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is hidden down a Florence alleyway behind heavy 18th century iron gates and open only by appointment to those who can afford …