Daily Painting

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Daria Kropacheva

IL SATIRO SCALZO (2017) 

[The Barefoot Satyr]

RAMON GUTHRIE

"The Clown's Report on Satyrs"

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On the hoof or dead, a satyr weighs

about the single same. They mingle

with goddesses and singe themselves in flame 

that they ignite with steady gaze

while they recite the name of One

who in the olden days

slept on Naxos' shingle,

and they are golden ruddy in the sun

and hold themselves aloof.

A satyr on the hoof is fleet.

Slaughtered, their dark red meat is strong.

EZRA POUND

"Pan Is Dead"

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Pan is dead. Great Pan is dead.

Ah! bow your heads, ye maidensall, 

And weave ye him his coronal.

     There is no summer in the leaves, 

And withered are the sedges;

     How shall we weave a coronal, 

Or gather floral pledges?

That I may not say, Ladies. 

Death was ever a churl.

That I may not say, Ladies.

How should he show a reason, 

That he has taken our Lord away 

Upon such hollow season?

Daily Painting

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Nicolas Poussin

The Triumph of Pan (1636) 

Pardon me.

Do you have a few moments to talk about our lords and saviors, the great horned forest gods of Northern Europe that appeared almost a thousand years after y'alls little white Egyptian baby?

Oh, you haven't heard the good news? Then I am so gosh darn happy to have this opportunity to share.








[Can I just have the pamphlet please?]

Carved satyr in the Roman Forum of Zadar, Croatia.

19th Century carved, pine-bearded satyr with vine leaves and grapes.