You touch things that you don’t know anything about.
You cradle a misplaced appetite.
A desire unwelcome.
Your body is blind to doors pointed toward.
You dominate her wrists.
You exerce a pressure that your fingertips are ignorant about.
You fool. You know exactly how it feels.
Repetition is a demon.
You orbit her, treating her like prey, yours to hold.
As she shuts doors, she feels safe and lies to herself.
Looking at the ring, thinking gold instead of misery.
Your blows come out of nowhere. You let nothing be known.
As she crouches in a house where the walls come undone,
The anticipation of his violence is silent, the steps fast.
She is the scapegoat. He corners what he pretends to love.
The tantrum-throwing boy in a man’s body.
There is a reason why this woman gravitates toward the window,
Growing wings he made her deem unfit.
All the better they alleviate her.
“Not at Home” by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912)
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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.
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