The Dark Angel[i] Slithering through the leadwort and scurvygrass[ii]; Stumbling on the stubble of a Saturday night binge, she mumbles a curse across the nettles’ needles A cross to cross across the green. She leans against the old stone wall munching on rhubarb from a rusty pail. The promise of a pie floats beyond the hills. The piper’s pipe rests on the edge of the well. A trace of tobacco rides the air. Yaowarat[iii], 2020 (In the Year of …
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Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” A Tale of A Boy, A Girl, Her Flower & It’s Poison
Aromatica Poetica is delighted to present “Rappaccini’s Daughter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1844, and later collected in Mosses From An Old Manse. We were alerted to this stunning gothic tale by Jim Endersby in his fun cultural history of the Orchid, in which he analyzes it as “one of the earliest killer plant stories.” As you know from reading “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid,” we love killer plant stories! But whereas H.G. Well’s story is lighthearted, Hawthorne’s …
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