Cargo Literary Magazine

Compelling stories of human development through the lens of travel

  • Home
  • Issues
  • Features
    • Creative Nonfiction
    • Photography
    • Poetry
    • Review
    • Visual Art
  • Submit
  • Blog
  • About Us
  • Contact

Lisboa

Tom Darin Liskey

Artist Statement:

“I’ve been to Lisbon a handful of times. Each time I go, I fall in love with the city a little but more. Modernity has done little to plow over the city’s ancient past. Lisbon is a city that seems to have found that hard-to-define balance between what has been and the preset. Put simply, I love Lisbon and its strata. Each unfolding civilization and culture have piled up on one another, forming the equivalent of a geological record for this city of hills. A walk through Lisbon’s narrow, winding streets and labyrinth-like alleyways and foot worn staircases often provides an unexpected vista into the city’s past. Empire architecture, moorish windows, and bookend-like Iberian homes all have place in the present day city.  Lisbon looks worn out, but elegant; prudish, but sensual; ancient, but teeming with youthful faces. In the end, what I love about Lisbon is that this city, where the smell of cooking food and the melancholic strains of fado music waft and mix in the air, creating a redolent perfume, is a city of lovers. Lisbon is place of public intimacy.”

-Tom Darin Liskey

Tom Darin Liskey

• • •

Tom Darin Liskey

• • •

Tom Darin Liskey

 • • •

Tom Darin Liskey
• • •

Tom Darin Liskey

• • •

Tom Darin Liskey

• • •

Tom Darin Liskey

•••

Tom Darin Liskey

· ·  ·

Tom Darin Liskey

• • •

 

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)

Related

About Tom Darin Liskey

Tom Darin Liskey spent nearly a decade working as a journalist in Venezuela, Argentina and Brazil. He is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi. His fiction and non fiction have appeared in the Crime Factory, Driftwood Press, Mount Island, The Burnside Writers Collective, Sassafras Literary Magazine, and Biostories, among others. His photographs have been published in Hobo Camp Review, Roadside Fiction, Blue Hour Magazine, Synesthesia Literary Journal and Midwestern Gothic. He lives in Texas where he tells his children that he has done worse things for less money.

Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: Europe, Portugal

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Subscribe to to receive new issues and updates from Cargo Literary Magazine.

Tags

Africa Alaska Art Brighton England Canada Central America China Cuba Egypt England Europe France Germany Greece Guatemala Home Hungary India Israel Italy Japan Madrid Mexico Nepal New York City Niagara Ontario Oregon Paris Paris France Philippines Poland Puerto Rico Sahara Singapore South Korea Spain Syria Thailand Tibet travel Turkey Veranasi India Vietnam writing life
« Get Hooked
Lucky, Holy »

© 2023 · Cargo Literary Magazine · Website by SunriseWeb.ca