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Chapter 149: vigilia
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The collection gathers lyrical sequences and sonnets in a confessional voice that probes modern female identity, desire, and social performance. One extended autobiographical sequence composed of many thirteen-line terzine reads like a novel without plot, tracing appetite, flirtation, indifference, and the exhilaration of urban fashion and nightlife; other poems, including more compact sonnets, record earlier romantic suffering and youthful passions. The speaker juxtaposes classical female archetypes with a contemporary Parisian model to explore ambivalence toward love, liberty, and reputation, using vivid sensory detail, psychological introspection, and recurring images of gaze, costume, jealousy, and theatricalized seduction.

vigilia

Grava su te, o insonne cuore, l'arco

pensoso di tua bianca ultima notte:

corta vigilia che il mistero inghiotte

giungendo, ora per ora, a estremo varco.

Tace ogni sogno e ascolta oppresso, carco

d'un confuso timor, le ininterrotte

voci dell'ombra, le parole rotte

forse da un dubbio, l'ammonire parco.

Nessuna ti racqueta o t'assicura,

anima sbigottita, cuore pieno

d'ansia, che aspetti ad una soglia oscura.

Nessuna sa. Tu sola saprai tutto:

se nèttare, se cenere, o veleno

t'offra la vita in suo supremo frutto.