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TEODORA VAMVU: All the Life We Cannot See

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Nitrogen, oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide, neon,
helium, krypton, hydrogen, and xenon

are the gases which make up
the Standard Dry Air.

And it’s air, but also love, and faith,
and trust, and warmth,

and friendship, and thoughtfulness, and courage,
and everything we can’t even see

that which keeps us alive.

A marketing specialist at a Romanian national radio station, Teodora Vamvu lives in Bucharest, Romania. Her microfiction and short prose have been featured on 101words, Spillwords, and MetaStellar, and her first non-fiction piece was a finalist in F(r)iction’s Creative Non-Fiction Spring 2024 contest. She is also part of two prose anthologies published through Amazon, available in Kindle format and print-on-demand, and an upcoming poetry one.

TEODORA VAMVU: This Is Not A Love Poem

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They say love is always
patient
and kind.

But your fury
sometimes knows
no self-control.

They say it’s better to love
and suffer
than to not love at all.

But my bruises
beg
to differ.

They say a lot of things about
love,

but they’ve never loved
someone like you.

A marketing specialist at a Romanian national radio station, Teodora Vamvu lives in Bucharest, Romania. Her microfiction and short prose have been featured on 101words, Spillwords, and MetaStellar, and her first non-fiction piece was a finalist in F(r)iction’s Creative Non-Fiction Sprin 2024 contest. She is also part of two prose anthologies published through Amazon, available in Kindle format and print-on-demand, and an upcoming poetry one.