by Bronwyn Mills…

One night in Lisboa, Ö. went into a fado bar. He went in late, to take shelter from cold, damp weather. The place was darker than the grave; and inside sitting at a table, he saw an older man eating a lovely fish soup. The music was rising to a wail. The singer was only practicing, so the music would stop now and then, unexpectedly, in the midst of an anguished cry. Wanting to strike up a conversation, Ö. sat down next to the old man.

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Bronwyn Mills’s books include Night of the Luna Moths and a fabulist novel, Beastly’s Tale. Her work appears in Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, and she guest-edited the Turkish issue of Absinthe: New European Writing. BronwynMills.org