Extract : Intimacy of the Rose

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CALLASSA

ROSA RUBENS

Intimacy of the Rose

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‘….She lifted her hair, and in its fall to become a thick mass of rivulets, then held from her face by a round agate pin above her left ear. Her jacket discarded, to reveal a red silk blouse, Gothic in appearance with a frill at the collar and cuffs which did little to disguise the voluptuous bearing of her body. Her red nails and her lips had been meeting in a sort of dance together …….’

from Rosa Rubens. (c) 2022 CALLASSA ‘Intoxication and Transfiguration;

‘…..with my spasmodic and faint first breathing against your hair, as the birds ever near, and whose voices ripple the air against the window of our room. The easeful ceasing of night….

ROSA RUBENS (c) Callassa ‘Intoxication and Transfiguration’.

And the dark will make you dream and upon the silent stream there within, shall be you and shall be I….

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CALLASSA

Invicta Veritate