November 2015
I am a stay-at-home mom who loves to write and do Irish dancing in my spare time. I lived in Japan for six weeks in 2010 and my experiences there have greatly inspired me. I am working on one novel and have ideas for quite a few more. I have been published in Mothers Always Write, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Saturday Night Reader, and others. I have a blog here: ophelialeong.blogspot.com.
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The Reclining Nymph
based on Auguste Rodin’s La Danaide (1885) I run my hand along The ridges of your back, Feeling your hummingbird-thin bones, your butterfly soft skin. You lie upon that harsh rock Baring the back of your smooth neck, Unblemished as a rose petal. Do you welcome the searching hands, Along your bare back? The sun shining like silk Across your body? Curling upon the rock, Your body looks like a shell washed ashore If you were to open your eyes, What tales would they tell? |
©2015 Ophelia Leong