OLD HEAVEN No. 002 — THE MOTIVE FORCE

OLD HEAVEN No. 002 — THE MOTIVE FORCE

Florence. An upstairs room. Someone has opened the shutters, though neither of you remembers doing it.

He’s standing at the window in your shirt, explaining the movement of heavenly bodies. You’re allowing him to finish. There are certain advantages to an educated man, and patience occasionally brings them out.

The love which moves the sun and the other stars.

An extravagant claim. But at four in the morning, with one shoe still missing and your sensible plans in ruins, you begin to entertain it.

Our No. 002 places a gold celestial wheel inside a ring of ecclesiastical blue. The Italian circles the heavens; the English sits beneath, for anyone who needs the proposition made plain. Old Heaven signs the proceedings.

Wear it to the museum. To the hotel bar afterward. To breakfast with someone whose surname you should probably learn.

It suggests an interest in cosmology. You may explain the rest at your discretion.

For those who have felt the earth move and would like to see the calculations.