Muse

By Christopher DelMonaco

Camille:

"'Montmartre was the center of my new world' when I spoke those words, I felt myself opening as I did when walking Montmartre's lanes the early years of my adult life. I felt the innocence of that girl breathing deeply as I, again, breathed deeply while passing the houses and shops and caf s for the first time.

The innocence, the pleasure, the pain poisoning, no, tainting only as I wouldn't allow the pain to poison me to poison us, I have lived love as my body has lived life: feeling everything, surviving all of it, I have held us together throughout all of it, and I have me more than I had in all of my life because of all of it.

I am happy from this; I am happy to have been acknowledged the many times that I have been acknowledged. Still, I don't think that I have been happier being acknowledged than this evening; after all, imagine a stranger turning in his seat; then, staring into me once questioning me, and he brought all of me out to lie bare upon the white cloth covering this table Yes, I could not be happier from exposing all of me."

To the reader,

If you are intending to read this piece, I appreciate artistic license; I allow it to control this piece as I wanted the pace of the writing to convey passion. I hope that you don't find this too distracting either here or in other writings. As always, thank you for reading my words.

C

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1076152163
• ISBN13: 9781076152169
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"