sky a buzzing and then a spark . . . bees it is but of a different kind . . . rising in a ball to blot out the sun and then starting to grow . . . sideways in an endlessly circling ribbon and then beginning to tilt as they head out towards the land . . . tips of their wings shooting off things that look like sparklers stuck in a baked alaska but not of the celebratory kind . . . just what they are for even the bees cannot say . . . oh no . . . a ship sunk with a shock from one . . . time to hide . . . the cave down on the beach . . . a climb down the cliff and into the water . . .just needing the tide a little up . . . that would work

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

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hissing on air as in the inner depths of an archeological dig far from anywhere the golden serpents in their nest amongst the dead king’s burial goods wiggle their way out, flashing their emerald eyes and gnashing their diamonded up fangs . . . the assistant with his trowel and then the head man with his charts and maps . . . no . . . the archeologist’s girlfriend surrounded and entwined and gone in a golden mist . . . the volcano at the other end of the island next . . . an eruption to cause . . . that’ll enliven up the afternoon . . .

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-4ea

Dennison Hallowe’en Jack-o-Lanterns seals. 1920s. American. Dennison Manufacturing Company Archives. dennisonarchivist on Instagram. From their Instagram.

whispering on air as the children walk by the old abandoned house and the trees start to sway . . . the wind or isn’t it . . . supposed to haunted with someone who grew up there crashing in a glider in a far distant place in the skies over France . . . making things sway for it was the wind he flew on and the dying of it that took him . . . who can tell . . . back that way after school and maybe gone . . . maybe not . . .

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link. Enjoy!

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Embroidered beetle in stump work. ca. 2012. British. Michelle Carragher, artist. Embroideress for The Game of Thrones. via michelecarragherembroidery.com.

effervescing on the breath of a grandfather lion as his daughter’s cubs leap on his tail as somewhere in South America in an abandoned pet shop something starts to happen . . . the animals taking over . . . perhaps two legged ones to turn into pets for pythons . . . perhaps not . . . maybe to be kept to dance for the giraffes over at the zoo instead . . . hmmm . . .

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Mourning ring in memory of French king Louis XVI ca. 1815. Reeded tortoiseshell set with a central gold band engraved with a memorial inscription. Maker not known. Royal Collection Trust.

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

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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 . . .

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to see it

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

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to see it

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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.