I perish on the edge of your mind.
Your torn open mouth.
The world that it lets loose.
And I’ll besiege your body with my ears.
I want to hold a pencil and let go.
I’ve seen you and heard of you in countless variations.
I care about the heart that beats.
I think ours are aligned within undiscovered fields.
The eyes of a child would always know you better.
The hands grow cold and not quite abandoned.
You’d never lose your thorns and I evoke your faraway voice.
I can still smell your chest.
The pillow of insurmountable tears.
Everything you held in and I let out.
We shared a sacred pain and echoes ran across our skin.
You can always feel the end when you’ve known the beginning.
I can hear an image of you whisper to me
When I stick my head under the blanket
And try to keep the candlelight alive on my altar for you
For as long as I can, for as long as it takes to have you here with me.
“Ruhende Frau mit Buch” by Ferdinand Max Bredt (1860-1921)
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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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