whispering on air as the last words of the dying pharoah’s curse escape his lips as far into the sand and a long time after the explorers poking through his mother’s tomb strip away her golden walls . . . a need to be careful for sure . . . the ancients having left their watchmen to keep guarding the Valley of the Kings . . . armed they are with ghostly knives and swords that flash red and green into the night . . . if they touch you . . . well that’s it . . . no more Shepheard’s Hotel for you . . .no . . . a turning into a white mist and gone . . . better hide . . . here they come

my series post for today published to my Substack if you’d like to see it. Thank you!

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Grief. Augustus Saint-Gaudens, sculptor. Marian Clover Hooper Adams memorial, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC. She died in 1885. @badbrahmin on Instagram. via Instagram.

smiling on air as in the great square of a city somewhere in Europe something goes wrong with the fountain . . . serpent looking creatures in day glo orange but with lots of heads like a hydra and all of them spitting pinkish slime . . . creeping from where the water comes out with an especially big one coming from Venus’s nose up at the top that’s a weird shade of marigold . . . growing and growing like spaghetti coming out of the holes in a colander . . . each head down a different street and out like a fan and back in down at the great gate . . . oh no . . . they are all beginning to squeeze with the houses on the outside bulging out first and then further in . . . the lost pythons from the zoo . . . went down the sewer but who would have thought they would emerge less friendly than they went in and not friendly back then . . .

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Serpent-shaped cast iron bench supports. ca. 1910. Made in England by William Lanes. Courtesy of @coolingandcollinginteriors. via @lostfoundartny.

effervescing on air on the paws of a baby jaguar as he cuddles up with his mother as down in the valley the lake begins to shiver and shake . . . something rising in the middle with a headdress covered with feathers like the ones in the Aztec exhibit at the museum . . . warlike they looked then and this is even worse . . . spear with one of these jade knives stuck to the end and a hot pink colored miasma cloud coming from its sandals and hovering around . . . maybe it will shrink or turn gray and fade away . . . one can only hope

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to see it. The crystal pumpkin in the thumbnail is from Steuben.

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Sparking on air as an avenging angel on a winged horse makes her way past the moon . . . things awry and needing to be made better and that right away . . . sent by the ancient gods who live in the last planet on the other side of the sun a few galaxies over . . . better be careful . . . sent to do the gods’ bidding . . . the new gods ignored for too long and the old no longer waiting to return . . .

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to see it. https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-6da

Saul and the Witch of Endor. 1777. American. Benjamin West, painter (1738-1820). via fineartamerica.com.

sparkling on air as a ghostly ship from a long-ago time sets sail on a frozen sea . . . a wraith at the wheel, one for a lookout and more to man the dories . . . the ice melted through and closing up behind . . . where next . . . the seals asleep and the polar bears too . . . prey in human form this time . . . not whales

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Feathered skull from the series My Lovely Bones. Contemporary. French. Resin base with feathers sourced from animals farmed for the food industry in Europe. Laurence le Constant, artist, via laurenceleconstant.com.

smouldering on air on a whiff of patchouli incense in a long abandoned attic as somewhere between Hadrian’s Wall and the Hebrides in the mists of Scotland the Roman legionaries shiver . . . dusk and a fog, hail and something slippery that sticks . . . a yowl that is not human and then another . . . like the wild cats in Sinai but different . . . these shooting poison from the tips of their whiskers and not purring for sure . . . funeral mound of a long lost king and steps that ascend a few paces ahead and somewhere to hide . . . maybe whatever it is can’t climb . . .

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to see it . . . the pumpkins are from katytrailmo.com

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smoldering on air as somewhere at the edge of a faraway galaxy the feasting gets underway . . . gone soon in rockets with women with horned helmets for figureheads on the bow and mad dogs hissing lava and smoke on the stern . . . earth ready or not ready but no matter . . . sea storms to start up with giant pitchforks and a sun to play with and toss out into the Milky Way . . . fun . . . mead for now and the other tomorrow . . . the earthlings with one more day and then.

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link. The image is from the Instagram of @gardenclubbackbay.

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Wall of pumpkins at Wilson Farm. 2024 image. Photo credit and © properbostonian.

whistling in on a demonic wind making the sirens that lure sailors to ruin pull their sea otter wraps closer as the carved owl on top of the ancient sepulchre stretches her wings and takes flight . . . another dive bombing attempt and the funerary priest slips . . . into the grave he goes with the owl chasing after while the mourners flee . . .

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Classic Harvest glass pumpkin. 2021. Leonoff Art Glass, maker. @leonoff_art_glass on Instagram. via Instagram.