Lieven Martens - Short stories – pleasant and/or rather sad (2022)

1. Romantic collection

I. Under the 4pm sun (smoke, blur, and deep green)
II. Two white-tailed tropicbirds
III. Waves breaking on black lava rocks (white spray)
IV. The distant lights of fishing boats at night

2. Sonorities

20 memories of maximum 20 seconds – and an intermezzo.

3. Madrigal: a Conversation in the Dark

In front of the house across my parents’ house. There are two statues. They’re bought in the local garden shop, on a budget. In their driveway strewn with gravel, they slyly talk at night.