Within the waves her face appeared like the moon.
Amongst the watery blue clouds, blemished grey and green.
And she floats underneath the bridges thinking about herself.
About her body turning around corners.
About the sunlight accentuating her features.
Her hair, a web, a labyrinth, growing inward.
Her heart is a muscle that drives her onward.
Trying to drown her impatience, adapting herself to the tenacity of the sea.
Her body rotates to catch a spark of the stars.
Leave an imprint.
Twisting and turning, shouting into the water.
They all look for her secrets.
Dissipated like ash in a thunderstorm.
Her fingers on her pastel lips.
It’s the salt that keeps her going.
And as she steps onto the rocks, she makes orphans out of her shadowlands.
“Marie Madeleine dans la grotte” by Jules Lefebvre (1834-1912)
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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.
I am the creator of "Croque-Melpomene: Femalecentric Poetry" and I have a YouTube channel carrying the same name.
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