Late Afternoon
“What the light reaches first is the lotus tattooed along her spine. She sits on the edge of an unmade bed, her head turned towards the window, and the la…
€3,700 — Le Yack
“What the light reaches first is the lotus tattooed along her spine. She sits on the edge of an unmade bed, her head turned towards the window, and the late-day light lays a warm hand on her skin. Down her back, a tattooed lotus and the snake coiled around its stem keep each other company like two truths that do not contradict each other. Everything plays out in that suspended moment when you are no longer quite of the day nor yet of the night, when the body remembers before the mind gets involved, when the gaze settles on the horizon, a question to which no answer is really expected. At that hour, we silently carry what made us, the sweet and the venomous intertwined, and we choose, withou…
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