Written August 7, 2020 Day One The darkness sat heavy upon them like the bulk of a gargantuan beast. It was a particularly humid evening, which only made the oppressiveness worse. Light from the candles situated in various places around their living room cast distorted shadows on the walls and their somber expressions. It could have been a painting. Or at least the younger boy thought so as his eyes moved across the faces of his family—his mother, Carrol; his…
Written August 3, 2020 There is no question that the rose is the most dangerous flower. Its petals, which make silk seem fibrous and coarse, spiral outward from the delicate center in a hypnotic pattern. The depth of their color makes one lost in admiration until the pressure becomes too much to bear. They reach out in desperation only to look down at their hand and see that familiar intense crimson spilling from their palm. The next time they see…
Written December 28, 2020 if you feel that you are insane do not look in the mirror Uncertainty © Safira Schiowitz
Written December 28, 2020 follow the veins on a slab of marble with your finger and find peace in that there is no end Futile Search © Safira Schiowitz
Written December 28, 2020 rain melts the window layer by layer until wavering images of the world are all that is left the face of the clock shatters time fractals fall mathematically gravity is defined scientifically and still the rain melts the window Measured Abstracts © Safira Schiowitz
Written July 22, 2020 Norton watched bubbles rise up in streams through the amber liquid sitting before him on the counter. The entire bar seemed to have this slowness, this viscosity. It did not only serve beer. It was drenched in beer. Honeyed light filled every corner of the stuffy room. There was always a vague haze that lensed one’s eyes like smoke, but no one could determine exactly where it came from. People spoke in low tones, their faces…
Written August 8, 2020 the explorer steps lightly on the soul of the earth looking for sacred marvels to collect from its skin sprigs of silver gather on the belly of a cave shards of crystal hang from rocks polished by the breath of clouds the explorer weighs rubies against the soft shingled throat of the hummingbird and chooses flight Hummingbird © Safira Schiowitz
Written August 19, 2020 the artist sings silver to flowers on the vine asking questions of simplicity to beauteous invisibility and sun-kissed time ripens her rhyme and the lovebirds say sweet words until silver bewilders and sleep settles the mind Eternity © Safira Schiowitz
Written August 19, 2020 there was a distinct salinity a vague affinity to life in the sky the clouds would cluster in cream and custard because this was life in the sky there were mandarines with perfume skins to float on winds and fish who flew into a stew when the sun it warmed a bun for this was life in the sky and no one died and no one cried and no one eyed the apple pie how beautiful …
Written July 7, 2020 while clouds whisper past in a quiet splendor there are secrets that go untouched mistakes are sewn into nature’s memory until patches make beings who dance in the light of the forgotten some ants’ feet keep time to forsaken souls floundering flowering pounding mud into gold Alchemy © Safira Schiowitz