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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.
E quella che va sola ama sostare
a vespro sotto cieli d'alabastro
chiari ancora d'un lume che traspare.
Guarda l'ombra affinar d'un vïolastro
pallore i monti, e attraversare il cielo
l'ultimo raggio come un lungo nastro.
Poi, tutto andar sommerso dietro un velo
su cui ansa, sgomenta d'esser sola,
la prima stella, come un cuore anelo.
Stella solinga, amara è la parola
di chi ti dice: — Io sono come te! —
di chi presso la notte si desola
tanto, e non osa dirtene il perchè.