Nothing good ever happened on benches.
They arrest a moment.
Allow the infinite lingering.
A seat where the same old injury was inflicted on her soul.
She would remain seated.
Unable to get up, move on.
Staring into the nothingness that she was left with.
The first touch should have alarmed her.
Instead she kept coming back for more.
Loneliness does that to her.
Keeping her identity at bay.
When did it happen, this revolt against her own solitude?
She was afraid of the moon, its revelatory nature.
Illuminating the darkness, the lies she decorates herself with.
The question marks it brings with it.
And soundlessly her mouth yells into the mattress.
Leaving her heart on the railtracks.
Hating the train. Loving the train.
To be deserted: a familiar taste in her mouth.
Screaming out loud as it all pops, the light through the cloud.
“A Sleeping Girl” by Pietro Rotari (1707-1762)
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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').
Author of "Within Paravent Walls". Pentalingual Idealist. Writer of psycho-corporeal Poetry. Creator of Croque-Melpomene & Les Femmes de la Décadence.
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