EPHEMERAL

when the last rook beat its straight path along the dusky air homewards, i blessed it.

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Costume Details + Mary, Queen Of Scots - 1971

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Nicolette Clara Iles / Hedge Witch 

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Barbier Venus and Adonis

[timotaychalamet]

The Witch (2015) dir. Robert Eggers

Suspiria (2018) dir. Luca Guadagnino

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Sandro Botticelli - Flower, detail from The Birth of Venus, 1486

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“I met the wolf alone and was devoured in peace.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from The Collected Poems; “True Encounter,”

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Frantisek Kupka, Autumn Sun Three Goddesses, 1906.

[loumargi]

Gustave Moreau, Voices of Evening, Angels.

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“Her mood is cruel, her nature dangerous, her will fierce and intractable.”

— Euripides, from Medea and Other Plays; “Medea” tr. by Philip Vellacott

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Pier Paolo Pasolini and Maria Callas kiss in the set of Medea, 1969.

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Katharine Hepburn photographed in her driveway by John Bryson | 1985

[lifeinpoetry]

Her hair dark reeds                        or river snakes.                                             Her wet mouth the rupture between your name                        & what

                                  she made you.

— Natalie Wee, from “The Other Woman,” published in The Adroit Journal

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Force and Reason - John Duncan

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Egyptian Girl (oil on canvas)

by Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov (Russian, 1844-1927)

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enchantedbook  /  oldpainting

Agnes Tait, 1894-1981 

Bacchanalian Scene, n/d, oil on canvas, 99,1x99,1 cm

Private Collection

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“Lovely-eyed. Death-touched. Witch.”

— Odysseus Elytis, tr. by Olga Broumas & T. Begley, from “The Dream,”