Mileva Anastasiadou
Mileva Anastasiadou
melancholia
by Mileva Anistasiadou
“The world has finally caught up to my climate; the catastrophe is finally real and I am its master, because I know disasters, and when Melancholia hits, I bloom in grief.”
grief party mixtape
by Mileva Anastasiadou
“…the music plays on and on and on at the grief party, when we throw our hands in the air as instructed and wave them like we don’t care, and we sway till the end.”
los caprichos
by Mileva Anastasiadou
“We held each other tighter, as if the monsters circling the room were real, as if one more kiss could keep the whirlpool from swallowing the last of what we had been. And somewhere in the dark, Goya’s ghost laughed.”
my last happy summer
by Mileva Anastasiadou
“before the world ended…It was mostly coffee and cigarettes cool, dark but also sunny and hot and watermelon and ice cream and iced alcohol drinks carefree.”
love me if you dare
by Mileva Anastasiadou
“Gina looks me in the eye, touches my hand, but I pull away, what on earth are you doing, I ask, and she looks disappointed, lies back on the sofa, love me if you dare, she says…”
i haunt your train
by Mileva Anastasiadou
“I sit next to your ghost and we exchange glances and words in silence because ghosts can’t speak.”
run, rudolph, run
by Mileva Anastasiadou
“Hope we have time to catch up before the end of times I have much to say lost my snowball my joy my mind after you left…”
counting crows
by Mileva Anastasiadou
“My bodily needs have vanished, but, otherwise, I live like I used to: I stay at home, like I always did; I count magpies in the yard to check my luck, but it’s less stressful now that I’m dead and my luck has run out…”
ruins
by Mileva Anastasiadou
“…I wonder what Jesus would do upon a second coming, if he’d go for rapture, or if he’d rather just live.”
my pendulum brother
by Mileva Anastasiadou
“My brother lives in the past, but he comes often to visit us in the present. He never stays for long and, even when he’s around, he can’t sit and talk, as if he’s forgotten that people can speak without words.”
cozy romance recipe
by Mileva Anastasiadou
“You only need sugar and honey and heartache. You mix well with an open mind. You place the ingredients on a beach…You take a dive into the blue waters, you hold your breath, you count to ten.”
reality chronicles in prime time
by Mileva Anastasiadou
“All we do now is pretend it’s 536, and we hold on to each other and we bow our heads and we wait and we hope that we’ll live to see the sunshine again and that the light wins before the credits roll.”
ghosts of me
by Mileva Anastasiadou
“Those ghosts visit more often the older I get, as if to remind me I’m running out of time.”
together we rise
by Mileva Anastasiadou
“We keep falling and falling and falling, we fall over, down, apart, and ‘Prove my love’ by Violent Femmes is playing on the radio…”