Quill and Quire

Think about it this way, you tell someone who sees what you see: you have been given four feathers. Two are small, sidling softly under, and two are peacock plumes with turquoise jewels for eyes. What do you keep, and what do you leave behind? Which will you dip into ink and touch to paper, wrestle with history, or with the sky? Perhaps it is not my place to ask, or to pry. You may have forgotten all the signs I gave you.

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Lorette C. Luzajic is from Toronto, Canada. Her prose poetry and small fictions are widely published, with recent or forthcoming appearances in Gyroscope, Free Flash Fiction, Bright Flash, Club Plum, Red Eft, and Indelible. A recent story won first place in a contest at MacQueen’s Quinterly, and she has been nominated several times each for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. Her most recent of five poetry collections is Pretty Time Machine: ekphrastic prose poems. Some of her works have been translated into Urdu. Lorette is founder and editor of The Ekphrastic Review, a journal devoted to literature inspired by art. She is also an award-winning visual artist, with collectors in 25 countries from Estonia to Qatar. Visit her at www.mixedupmedia.ca.