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Desiderio a Venezia

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Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
where she asks us to get creative in exactly
89 words using the prompt word ‘chandelier’.
Also for Sue & Gerry’s Weekly Prompts Weekend
Challenge – “interlude” and Brenda’s Random
Thoughts image. Here’s where the prompts took me.

© Brenda Cox

The chandelier trembles, golden light
on dark water,
our table balanced between hunger
and thirst.
You reach around the wine glasses, fingers
just grazing mine
like a gondola finding
its mooring.

Branzino arrives in capers and white wine,
steaming;
the canal outside alive with salt and stone,
breathing
old facades, close together like lovers,
leaning.

We speak in half-sentences,
the silence heavy with desire.
Pedestrians on the bridge will never know
this particular interlude:
your mouth,
the flickering light,
tranquil Venetian waters
whispering breathless secrets
beneath us.

NAR©2026
89 Words

This is “Breathless” Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Weekend Writing Prompt #464 – Chandelier
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Interlude
P for Port Cities

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