floral maiden

Necklace of rayed stars (incomplete), 300-200 BC, Hellenistic Greek

Persephone!

winter’s nigh and summer’s o’er. hear that high and lonesome sound of my husband coming forth to bring me home to hadestown.

And on the road to Hell there was a railroad line And a lady steppin’ off a train With a suitcase full of summertime Persephone, by name!

But even that hardest of hearts unhardened Suddenly, when he saw her there Persephone in her mother’s garden Sun on her shoulders, wind in her hair

― caitlyn siehl

Laura Harrier by June Canedo

Laura Harrier photographed by Alexander Neumann for InStyle US (March 2018)