vessel
wheel spinning crushes dawns and dusks, grinding them and sieving them in a bowl of clay meant only to gather, and on the edge of the bowl – lo! word’s breath © Liliana Negoi
vanity
© Liliana Negoi
luminous – flash fiction
She sat there, with the precious stillness of a Tanagra, frozen beneath the cascade of magnolia petals – and all that sunrise was able to do was to jewel her aura with fiery reflexes, as if she was Amaterasu herself, borrowing for a while the limits of flesh with the sole purpose of proving the … Continue reading
fume
[…] in my palm drunken with stains of sunrise a moth searches for the path of yesterday while rays vibrate under the voice of a blackbird, like a violin string swooshing ‘neath a fidlestick sounds glide, blunt and sharp, and light shivers in search for a fulcrum within them – the moth is doomed to … Continue reading
shards
that’s all that lies in my thoughts tonight and all that my sleepless tired eyes see is a little bit of this and a little bit of that, twisted and covered with social make-up, a grotesque kaleidoscope of pieces none of them really beautiful but then again not really ugly either, bad venetian mirror replicas … Continue reading
pins and needles in god’s tongue
[…] you say “surreal”… there’s no such thing as “surreal” – things beyond the reach of the numb limbs of our conscience need not the blessing of our knowledge to exist but figure this: words do not need us to survive – and when we pluck them randomly from god’s tongue we barely cream their … Continue reading