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SPIRI TSINTZIRAS

Spiri Tsintziras is the author of memoirs My Ikaria and Afternoons in Ithaka. She is the co-author of the award-winning title Parlour Games for Modern Families, which has been published internationally. Her life writing and short non-fiction have been published in anthologies, newspapers and magazines. She teaches professional writing at Swinburne University and blogs about food, family and connection at www.tribaltomato.com.
Logos

Self within self

encased by membrane

fluid, flashing synapses

sparking ideas,

spirit,

words



Συνεργια. Πραξις.

Hands, brain,

white unlined paper

working together

defying logic


Λογος

Logic. Order.

Speech. Cause. Reason.

Consideration.

So much meaning

encased within its compact form


Meaning

welling up from a

fluid place,

takes form,

fluttering and landing on the page


Nero

Water,

wild and dirty

pushes through hard earth,

roots, worms and flesh


The words

inherited from those before me

bodies no longer here

squeeze past


Pulsing with blood

enveloped by warm flesh,

they break through

the membrane

despite myself


All I need do is capture them

before they disappear

into the afternoon light