He held her face in his hands.
Wet with disillusionment.
She kneeled, abandoned.
He had emptied her to walk away.
A woman of regeneration.
The wounds inflicted upon her.
She mastered the reconstructive knitting.
The holding together, composure.
As tears were rolling down her features, her back kept straight.
And as the needle pierces her flesh and wanders around,
The more pain, the more healing, she administered her flesh and glory.
Recovering from infatuation, discovering love, the endless one, the struggle to uphold.
The movement of the needle a dance, unbound, the accompanying voice.
As his steps left her alone, the spectrum broadened.
Wide open, the elbows spread themselves, she stood erect.
La grande amoureuse recuperating love in her own skin.
‘Une Grande Amoureuse’ Recital by Croque-Melpomene on YouTube
“Danae” by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
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My name is Laura Gentile. I’m of German-Italian descent and I speak five languages such as English, German, French, Italian, Luxembourgish and I’m currently learning Romanian.
I hold a Master of Arts Degree in English Literature, Film and Visual Culture (Dissertation: The Decadent in Love with his Psychopomp: Thomas Mann's 'Death in Venice' and Adrian Lyne's 'Lolita') and a Master of Letters by Research in English Literature, Film and Visual Culture (Thesis: Romanticising Decadence and Aestheticising Death: Women as Projection Bodies and Mimetic Identities in Zola’s 'Thérèse Raquin', Schnitzler’s 'Dream Story', Süskind’s 'Perfume: The Story of a Murderer' and Eugenides’ 'The Virgin Suicides').
My debut novel, 'Within Paravent Walls', will be published by WiDo Publishing / E. L. Marker.
I am the creator of "Croque-Melpomene: Femalecentric Poetry" and I have a YouTube channel carrying the same name.
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