@1 year ago with 22 notes
sleeper, wake.
shake off your rent and dusty garb
rise up from out your beds in
ruins made caves by fecund green,
and burst, erupting
from the vegetal skin.
then stand
and sway
and gaze transfixed at birds who never felt the weight of earth compressing wing or song.
I learned in anatomy that the reason so many old anatomical illustrations depict corpses hanging from trees is that they...
De dissectione partium corporis - Charles Estiennes - 1546