I know your voice by heart, I let it
Speak to me every day, the way it called
Me, but my arms could not reach out to you
To let you go, to inhale you, one more time,
Absorb your memory, and close my eyes
Not to see you go.
Every time I lie down, your face
Washes up on my shores and I
Send whispers outside of my room.
The echoes of our past whiplash my back.
I crawl back in my childlike body and beg
You to hold me once more.
My name on your dying lips,
The words that pronounced you dead
As I sunk down on my knees
To pick up the pieces of me, and us,
To never lose them, to let them keep their
Pulse, unlocked, turbulent, between us.
I remember your language.
The valleys and mountain tops of your
Vocality. How I strain my own voice
To resemble yours, to hold you there, feel
You there, with me. I sing your songs
And acknowledge your steps, I remember
That you hover now, instead of holding
My hand, flesh to flesh, my skin on yours,
Immortal love letters.
“Portrait of Mme Boère” by Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702-1789)
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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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