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A hermetic summoning
Apr. 17th, 2007 12:53 amWilliam Carlos Williams and his damn genius won't get out of my head:
Relatedly, botanical illustration used to be wild and wooly! That painting makes me think of flamenco dancers dressed in shaggy cardinal costumes; the petals seem equally suffocating and alluring, slick liquid silk. The flower is labeled "red parrot tulip", and it's depicted in the Karlsruhe Tulpenbuch (c. 1730). I was privileged to see it on Bibliodyssey, which is always worth visiting.
(Spring? Spring?)
and now it is the souring flowers of the bedraggledReading that aloud wakes up your mouth.
poplars: a festering pulp on the wet earth
beneath them.
Relatedly, botanical illustration used to be wild and wooly! That painting makes me think of flamenco dancers dressed in shaggy cardinal costumes; the petals seem equally suffocating and alluring, slick liquid silk. The flower is labeled "red parrot tulip", and it's depicted in the Karlsruhe Tulpenbuch (c. 1730). I was privileged to see it on Bibliodyssey, which is always worth visiting.
(Spring? Spring?)
