Horse Nettle
Here is a thorn among the green,Sharp and tender as a tooth.Here are five songs for the dead,Five movements, five gestures,Five dances for that dark companyIn five ballrooms, every one as lushAs these woods in the long exhaleAt the end of summer. The grassesYellow, and the flower in the throngOf barbed horse nettle sharpensIts bone-white…
Black Nightshade
“Black nightshade is sometimes confusingly referred to as ‘deadly nightshade’ in older herbals due to its fruit, which does somewhat resemble the berries of the belladonna plant. Its flowers are quite distinct, though, being small and very delicate blooms of white and yellow. The American variety (solanum ptychanthum) has glossy berries, while the berries of…
Hillside Graves
Woodcut-style illustration on an aged paper background. Available on prints, greeting cards, and more at https://rjstudio.threadless.com/designs/hillside-graves.
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Roger J. Horne 