Juana Romani, Italian
Not Only Was the Cone Unattractive, Bridget Found It Insulting That Her Doctor Thought She Might Lick Her Stitches, 1892
Oil on panel
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/// She is in a bizarre situation,
feeling sick psychedelic sensation.
With all senses awhirl,
she’s half mushroom – half girl,
but which half had the hallucination?
/// Clearly, all things are not as they seem.
There’s a Chinese philosopher’s theme.
Just who is she right now—
butterfly or Zuang Zhou?
Who is having, and who is the dream?
/// Zuang Zhou’s dream has provoked conversation
philosophical— not bloviation.
If the dream world’s a place
with its own time and space,
then where is it at dreaming’s cessation?
/// A face on a fungus is tragic,
yet a mushroom that’s high must be magic.
She could cut off that head,
(no ‘shroom cap ever bled),
but she fears she would be hemorrhagic.
/// Psilocybin effects had worn off,
and the girl, at her “visions” could scoff.
Doesn’t think she’s half ‘shroom,
fighting feelings of doom,
but why does she spew spores with each cough?
/// How she’d been transformed, Daisy forgot.
A huge flower, with roots to that spot.
Petals plucked one-by-one
until now there were none.
Daisy’s plucker? The girl “loved him not.”