Poetry

Chrysalis

by Giulia Ottavia Frattini

falling in love with this language
to heal a bleeding reality

words are theatre and lust,
my body, a flawed emitter

i call gestures and hopes by the names of flowers
to evoke the beauty of their brevity

by touching myself, i become impenetrable

Appeared in Issue Fall '22

Giulia Ottavia Frattini

Nationality: Italian

First Language(s): Italian
Second Language(s): English

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