[fleshmayden]

***

The god of dirt

came up to me many times and said

so many wise and delectable things, I lay

on the grass listening

to his dog voice,

crow voice,

frog voice; now,

he said, and now,

and never once mentioned forever

[pmamtraveller]

The Princess and the Pea, by Christian Birmingham

[holespoles]

Winslow Homer (1836-1910）

"Blackboard"

[ordocarmelitarum]

Infirmary of the Carmel at Lisieux where Thérèse died on 30 September 1897

[inspirationpainting]

Eugene de Blaas (Austrian, 1843-1931) The veiled woman (1882)

[pmamtraveller]

Illustration by Rose O’Neill, 1907

[rosieandthemoon]

The Dryad, 1910

[7pleiades7]

Sleeping Beauty (also known as Briar Rose) by Kinuko Y. Craft (Japanese-born American, born 1940), oil-over-watercolor on clayboard gesso panel, 13 x 24 in, Private Collection

[random-brushstrokes]

Nikolai Bodarevsky - Her Favourite (1905)

[weepingwidar]

Dittmar Viane (Belgian, 1998) - Betrayal (2023)

[charnel-grounds]

Michael Flanagan, “The Land of Leys,” 1979

source

[clawmarks]

Lindenia : Iconographie des orchidées - J. Linden - 1885 - via Internet Archive

[thingsfromthedirt]

Eve and the Serpent, designed by Léon Sault (Paris, ca. 1860s)

[jareckiworld]

Konstanty Gorbatowski (1914-1984) — Red Act [oil on canvas, 1980]

[nemfrog]

Medusa's head from Montfaucon. The Worship of the Serpent. 1830.

Internet Archive

[fiere-violet]

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

A type of carriage referred to in the text as "L'Hirondelle" from Science new ser.:v.1 (1883).

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