tenebrious times: vika kuropyatnikova

Vika K in Willow Thigh High Boots. Russh Australia 25

Photo: Derek Henderson from the editorial Ain't Got No Home

from Ponytail SS 2010 editorial Lithium

The Wasteland

April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
....
A woman drew her long black hair out tight
And fiddled whisper music on those strings
And bats with baby faces in the violet light
Whistled, and beat their wings
And crawled head downward down a blackened wall
And upside down in air were towers
Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours
And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.

exerpts from
T.S. Eliot