She went unloved.
From body to body.
Past to past.
The burdening brand, the fire sculptor.
Suffocated by what made her female.
In their eyes, the gaze oppressive, master narrator.
She won’t let them hold her hand.
She tries to kill them all off like flies.
Without the entanglement of her young mind.
Extracting the grudges.
Expulsating the lifted fingers, the judges, the unclean vests.
Their words a distortion factory.
Had they ever listened to themselves?
Their unholy euphoria?
Their appetite for female disaster?
Licking their lips, rubbing their hands.
Unwholesome chapters, never healers, infiltrators.
They see the wound and smile.
The road that opens up.
And she believes in fairy-tales.
The piano dark, tunes enveloping, garments parade.
Lover sociopath. Body narcissist.
The mind a bathtub, confining, the water diluting the poison.
Erasing his hands from her skin.
Body memory, friend of mine.
Treat me better than I treat you.
But then, the answer goes: “we’re in the same boat”,
And that’s when self-love grows.
“Sleeping Woman with a Peacock” by Léon Comerre (1850-1916)
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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 poetry and short stories have been published in two anthologies entitled 'Shaking Thoughts' and 'Until Forever Becomes The End', both edited by Joan Barbara Simon PhD PhD, leading to a prose and poetry recital called 'Silence Breakers' at the Libreria Altrimenti in Luxembourg.
My article on 'Biblical Imagery and Apocalyptic Visions in Films' written for the university course 'Film And Popular Culture' was published in a Luxembourgish film magazine named 'Graffiti'.
My work was chosen as obligatory reading for the academic course 'Creative Writing' at the University of Luxembourg and was the focus of the students’ exam portfolio. I was invited by the University of Luxembourg to do a workshop on my short story 'Prophets of the Streetlight' for the 'Creative Writing' course, including a reading and a Q&A.
In 2013, I published my own collection of short stories and poetry entitled 'Seraphic Addiction', which led to an invitation by Ara City Radio to do an interview and a reading on air.
Consequently I was encouraged to create my own radio show called 'Chasse-Sirène' surrounding literature, films, music and art.
Furthermore, I am the official German translator of Joan Barbara Simon’s 'Verses Nature' trilogy.
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.
I am a weekly blogger for RTL Today, a major European media platform.
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