Old poems and older poems. The art in here is far more recent - all illustration tiles were made between April 20, 2024 and May 12, 2024.
Some of these poems were published in a chapbook, Eleusinian Mysteries, in 1995, under the pen name Sarah Maddo...
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Spoiled meat; spoiled rotten; spoiled brat; spare the rod and you spoil the child; spoiled earth; spoilers on cars that go very fast, racing like the wind - not heeding red lights. Scarlet pimpernel; scarlet letters; Scarlett O'Hara, who will always have Tara; diminutive scar that can't be seen; woman with red hair, who is born a witch; Harvard crimson; scarlet gown: the lady in red. She walks in the night, like beauty, and all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect. Damaged goods; broken goods; soiled goods; soiled hands, loam-coloured hands: a gardener's hands, digging deep in the earth, rooting up tares, sowing seeds that will become lovely lilies, unless they become cherry blossoms. It's a quirk of nature, a property of soil. Mad Magdalen goes on dirty toes. Fallen leaves, falling in love, windfallen fruits, falling down stairs, falling from an aeroplane; fall as a season; fall as a verb; fall as a description; fall as a spiritual state of being. The fall of Eve, falling down drunk, fallen hopelessly, fallen hard. Fear of falling. Waterfalls. I've fallen and can't get up. My skin's bruised, but I've survived. It comes from having earth in my chart.
