Eva Colombo, Flowers and sea, fifth chapter: Ariadne’s poppies ( Inspired by John William Waterhouse’s painting Ariadne, 1898)
 
Eva Colombo, Flowers and sea, fifth chapter: Ariadne’s poppies ( Inspired by John William Waterhouse’s painting Ariadne, 1898)
Dawn light grazed the night sky like a rose which grazes the sea. Above the horizon, the star Sirius was burning like the eyes of who have just passed a summer night staring at the dark with wide – open eyes so that the dark may be mirrored by those eyes and in this way soothing the loneliness which is damned to suffer by the too much long summer days. Then the sun disclosed the poppies’ corolla and you fell asleep listening to the hypnotic humming of the bees. You dreamed of falling into an abyss and yet you didn’t abandon yourself to despair since you had noticed on the bottom of that abyss a mother – of – pearl glow sent forth by an huge fossil of an ammonite shell. And you danced following the spiral of the shell and it was as ascending the Bovolo staircase, in Venice. You arrived at the top, you saw the sea. You reversed the line of the dance, you descended the staircase. And you reached the sea. The sea which remembers presented you with your past as if it were the greenest seaweed, the brightest hope for your future. When you opened your eyes again the sea drenched with the setting sun was wine – colored. The poppies quivering at the touch of the bees were like chalices overflowing with a wine as sweet as honey, hypnotic like the swash of the sea. You met the eye of a man who was brave enough not to be afraid of falling into the abyss of your eyes. And he saw that the spark of love into your huge dark eyes was like a star which shines into a labyrinth, and he knew that freedom is the gift of your love.