sparkling on air as deep in a botanical garden somewhere in the West something comes to life and reaches up . . . a foot one day and two the next . . . through the greenhouse roof and rising up . . . flowers jumping out up and down the trunk and tendrils that reach out and grab . . . roots like iron and impossible to chop . . . too bad the explorer didn’t leave it where he found it on that remote isle where it was . . . wanting to stay it must have and better had it not been disturbed.
my series post for today published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to see them all.
https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-0b9
The Soul Hovering over the Body, illustration for an 1808 edition of Robert Blair’s The Grave. 1808. British. William Blake, illustrator (1857-1827). via amazon.com.