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Pulsatilla
Hetaera postulat and pendulous with heavy-chested sighs under her silky
gown. Or rather a kind of hessian, packing material for the muse. Concealing
rhetoric and extreme behaviour.
An early bloomer, the pasque flower resists the snowly chill
of critique. Riding on the winds of change it spreads its lyric seed.
Dependent as a puppy she lives off the avails of adulation. Emotional and eager to please.
Since puberty she has never felt herself. The alternating occipital ache, swollen dorsum of
footstep. Post-partum seething.
Poemeopaths take great aesthetic delight in prescribing the constitutional type
associated with this remedy. Particularly blondes.
Histrionic yet shy and given to extremes of pleasure and pain she avoids dark tunnels.
Has a morbid fear of the opposite text. Craves acids and pungent things. Herrings, cheese.
Fears and feels slighted. Crying helps.
Affecting mind, veins, mucous membranes, Pulsatilla is the potion for passively hostile
and affectionate verse. For showing finally how to why.
—Mari-Lou Rowley
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from Viral Suite published by Anvil Press, 2004