Orpheus by Maria Schiza

I stayed still and watched you turn.

I kept my hands held towards your face.

I kept them still.

Still, I saw you turn;

when you had fully turned

your face felt false.

The ghosts crackled once,

distant as thunder.

Maria Schiza is a freelance writer and translator from Thessaloniki, Greece. She has recently graduated with a master’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of Nottingham. Her work has previously appeared in Persephone’s Daughters, on the website of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies, in Voices, and others.