[syndicate] The Poisons of Felicia Hemans

[jeff harrison]

CASABIANCA 

the fatal dose of arsenic 
is 200 milligrams. It was 
Albertus Magnus, waistcoat 
unbuttoned, mouth gorged 
with bread, who isolated 
this element (1250). 

yet another show 
to strike earthly love, 
it's found in fish & 
crustaceans, in ores, 
coal, & soil. it is toxic 
by copying creature light 

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TALES, AND HISTORIC SCENES 

Strychnine: the deathly qualities 
of Nux vomica, a berry, was known 
to the Arabs as early as the 5th century. 

Strychnos nux vomica 
undid Alexander the Great, 
among others. like any labyrinth, 
Strychnine, no cup of rain, 
mangles its corners, & like a labyrinth's 
beast, mangles its comers 

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THE VESPERS OF PALERMO 

I. 

Hemlock 
doesn't affect 
larks & quails 


II. 

Socrates, 
will pity 
ever summit triumph? 

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THE GRAVES OF A HOUSEHOLD 

Cyanide is found in laurel leaves. 

Livia Drusilla soaked 
the figs of Augustus 
(hitherto dusty, & 
ordinary, hitherto) 
in this poison. 

Augustus, 
is it true the spaces 
disbursed between breaths 
weigh memory as worthy this 
unworthy this retention 
for relocation's keeping? 

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A MONARCH'S DEATH-BED 

Aconite, hailing from saliva hailing 
from Cerberus, is hailed as Queen 
of Poisons. also hailed as wolfsbane, 
leopardsbane, devil's helmet, & 
blue rocket. walking along that portico 
to the double doors of wolfsbane, you 
may see the green column 
is "parch", the red column 
is "flay", the blue column 
is "deafness", the yellow column 
is "convulse", the white column 
is "the 1000th-most head of Cerberus" 

 		
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