Imaginarium
‘I am a smiling woman’
Sylvia Plath, Lady Lazarus
And it came to me
that stones, trees and water
live in a circle
trace their souls
stain the landscape,
it’s a luxury you can lead your life without choosing
and yet determined to leave a mark,
to delineate the lines of a life that is dissolving
but resolved to have a shape.
The smiling woman purifying in a hot bath
free in her emptiness
filled with the voices of the bells
startling the sky
announcing the blackness of Resurrection.
Carla Scarano D’Antonio lives in Surrey with her family. She obtained her Master of Arts in Creative Writing at Lancaster University and has published her creative work in various magazines and reviews. Her short collection Negotiating Caponata was published in July 2020 by Dempsey & Windle. She completed her PhD degree on Margaret Atwood’s work at the University of Reading and graduated in April 2021. Links: http://carlascarano.blogspot.