LA SYLPHE DE FORÊT NOIRE

From Edward Gorey’s Scènes de Ballet.

A glimmer of white tulle in a thicket of ink-black pines, graceful as a half-spied pirouette between a silhouette of clawed branches.

The hush of forest moss under satin slippers, a wisp of candle smoke, the flick of a wrist as pale as lilies beckoning through thick myrrh shadows.

Artwork courtesy of the Edward Gorey Charitable Trust.