Anaïs Nin: Thinks of June — Part One

Anaïs Nin: Thinks of June — Part One
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The Writer’s Word

Essence of a Woman by Anna Razumovskaya

Anaïs Nin
Thinks of June
Part One

At night I dreamed of her,
not magnificent
and overwhelming
as she is,
but very small
and frail,
and I loved her.

I loved a smallness,
a vulnerability
which I felt was disguised
by her inordinate pride,
by her volubility.

It is a hurt pride.
She lacks confidence,
she craves
admiration
insatiably.

She lives
on the reflections
of herself
in the eyes
of others.

She does not dare
to be herself.

There is no June
to grasp
or know.

She knows it.
The more
she is loved,
the more
she knows it.

She knows
there is
a beautiful woman
who took her cue
last night
from my
inexperience

and concealed
the depth
of her
knowledge.

Paysage aux Papillons — Salvador Dali