Above her eyebrows: dust. The tongue of a classic face.
Clouds beneath her eyelids. The plastered structure.
Rocks and cliffs across her brain, grains of lethargy.
The feminine sculpture. The enamoured malady, jealousy,
Heartburn, flames of hair, a knot entangled around her chest.
She thinks of him, there, disappearing in all of her matter.
Giving herself away, every inch, every whiff of her scent,
Her skin, the electrified hair on her neck, her open mouth,
The triangular wetness. And she moulds her head into his armpits,
Baptised, a crowned flower, growing within, a sentiment, chasing
Away abandonment and deconstruction.
She swallows her entombed bitterness
And tastes him, here and there, embalms
Her body with every lost particle of his and
Closes her eyes as if to hold him there, and suffocates
Herself in the wild opus of her obsessed desires.
“Hypatia” by Julius Kronberg (1850-1921)
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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').
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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