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.
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.
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89 Words
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