Sunday, June 9, 2013

Embarkation of Cythera

Pomegranate flower / © Evi Sarantea

Like jellied flowers
  
My inflated curves
  
Melt in the peaceful stagnance of the bath.
  
If I were to die
  
I would resist the final agony
  
With only a faint quiver
  
From my escaping thighs.

Evelyn Scott [from Precipitations, 1920]

L' embarquement pour Cythere, Antoine Watteau (1717)

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