David Dephy | Silent Afternoon

Silent Afternoon

 

 

They say nothing after sex.

 

Silence was yellow in that second.

 

“Silence is gold,” he thought.

 

“Indeed,” she said.

 

“You are reading my thoughts,” he closed his eyes.

 

It was the most mysterious second in their life,

 

when they felt the breath of each other, as their own.

 

“Love always wins,” he said after a century of silence,

 

and she replied: “If not, it won’t be love.”

 

 

 

Georgian American writer David Dephy is the recipient of a 2019 Spillwords Press Poetry Award and a finalist for the 2019 Adelaide Literary Awards in the category of Best Poem. He’s been called “A Literature Luminary” by Bowery Poetry, New York, and “The Incomparable Poet” by STAT®REC. A prolific writer of essays, fiction, and poetry, the author of over thirty books, including ten novels, his work appears widely and has been published in translation and internationally. Eastern Star, a full-length collection of poems, in English, is due out this fall from Adelaide Books. Dephy was born Tbilisi, Georgia, and lives in New York.

Chiara Maxia | Early Afternoon

Early afternoon

Daisy scent in the air
dry grass stinging my legs
an old white dress.

April

Eyes closed,
flattened by the downpours of sun.
Laid down in the backyard
I disaggregate.

I melt in the sun

I melt.

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Chiara Maxia is a multilingual actress and writer. Born on the Italian island of Sardinia, she has lived in different countries including England, Russia, Scotland, and France. She started training as an actor in Italy, continuing her studies in London and later in Paris, where she graduated in Film Acting in 2019. She currently splits her life between France and Italy. In 2018 she published her first poetry collection, Flirt. ICON — poems and visuals — was released in April 2020.