Datura Inoxia

- DATURA INOXIA -

Datura Innoxia ready to bloom during the evening... 🌕

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Datura Inoxia preparada para abrir sus flores en horas vespertinas...  🌕

*Sacred Datura ready to bloom at dusk...

"If you would poison your mind

with the bitter herb of self-hate,

nothing can save you:

not the lover who comes in the night

smelling of pitch & brimstone,

not the husband who comes in the light

smelling of hay & the golden turds of mares,

not the mother with her poisoned apple,

not the daughter with her wreaths of roses & opium poppies,

not the sister with her rosemary & rue

nor the brother with the mandrake root.

Having driven out the demons of the past

we find them now within.

No witches burn in the market

but our minds revolve upon their own spits;

no crucifixion upon Calvary

but a daily torture in the hills of the skull,

no smell of burning female flesh upon the heath,

but the acrid odor of the heart slowly smoldering.

*Indian-apple, Datura Inoxia

What witchcraft will it take

to bend this world to our will?

Must we burn poisonous herbs

to kill the poisons in the streams?

Must we wear poultices of Henbane

& Deadly Nightshade

against the very air?

*Datura Inoxia flower opening slowly...

O take this garlic rosary,

this token of death’s breath,

this possessed vegetable,

this bulb of dried desire.

I am sick of haunting myself

from within

like an old house.

I would be happier

as a hunted witch."

Bitter Herb - Erica Jong

*Datura Inoxia, Moonflower