![]() |
![]() |
Issue 23: | 28 April 2024 |
Microfiction: | 89 words |
—After The Shadow of Days (1970) by Wifredo Lam*
We cave-leave, we walk-go. In dark we river-cross. We plant-flatten, we dirt-line-draw. We flame-forge, we plants-boil. We bones-throw, we jump-dice. We chest-thump, we hair-pull. We feet-stomp, we purple-blister. Sun comes, we spear-sharpen. We throat-growl, we deer-beckon. We deer-chase. We deer-kill, we flat-stretch. We blood-drink, we bones-clean. We meat-fire, we sticks-click, we deer-eat. We dream-sleep. We down-pull sky, up-push ground. We rock-lick. We cloud-bite. We legs-stand. We circle-make. We condor-call. We walk-go. We sound-sing. We sound-sing. We sound-sing.
* The Shadow of Days (painting, 1970) by Cuban Surrealist painter and sculptor Wifredo Lam (1902-1982) may be viewed at KarlaCarolina (23 April 2011):
https://karlacarolina.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/the-shadow-of-days/
To learn more about the artist, visit the following site, which offers a comprehensive biography, chronology, and a range of his works from the 1930s through 1970s, including paintings, drawings, ceramics, and other artforms:
https://www.wifredolam.net/index_en.html
Links above were retrieved on 7 April 2024.
work appears in 100 word story, Atlas and Alice, Bending Genres, The Citron Review, The Disappointed Housewife, The Dribble Drabble Review, Flash Boulevard, Gone Lawn, New World Writing, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Midway Journal, Milk Candy Review, Mslexia, The Offing, Tiny Molecules, trampset, and elsewhere. She’s received nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Best American Short Stories, and Best Microfiction.
Copyright © 2019-2024 by MacQueen’s Quinterly and by those whose works appear here. | |
Logo and website designed and built by Clare MacQueen; copyrighted © 2019-2024. | |
Data collection, storage, assimilation, or interpretation of this publication, in whole or in part, for the purpose of AI training are expressly forbidden, no exceptions. |
At MacQ, we take your privacy seriously. We do not collect, sell, rent, or exchange your name and email address, or any other information about you, to third parties for marketing purposes. When you contact us, we will use your name and email address only in order to respond to your questions, comments, etc.