#gold tablet

what's been eating me?

the spiderweb of directionality. lostness where you cannot wander. stuck like a fly, at the center of it all and nowhere.

every step counts but in what direction? set off towards the mountains, or the river? towards botany, or the written word? singing in the car, at karaoke. a smaller self sees the mirror as less of a threat. weeps for wasted time.

honesty, honesty. caught throat and tongue like a fish flopping on the boat. how to say what needs to be said:

ALBANY, N.Y. — In a ruling rejecting any claims to the “spoils of war,” New York’s highest court concluded Thursday that an ancient gold tablet must be returned to the German museum that lost it in World War II.

The Court of Appeals unanimously agreed that Riven Flamenbaum’s estate is not entitled to the 3,000-year-old Assyrian relic, a 9.5-gram (.34-ounce) tablet smaller than a credit card.

A dispute over an ancient gold tablet pitting a Holocaust survivor's heirs against the German museum that lost the Assyrian relic in World War II will be argued Tuesday in New York's highest court.

The 9.5-gram (.34-ounce) tablet, about the size of a credit card, was excavated a century ago by German archaeologists from the Ishtar Temple in what is now northern Iraq. It went on display in Berlin in 1934, was put in storage as the war began and later disappeared.