2010.54.2183

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The left side of the poster has the text: "Djuna Barnes / The very Condition of Woman is so subject / to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that / to place her at one Moment is but to displace / her at the next. / In youth she is comely, straight of Limb, / fair of Eye, sweet back and front; tall or short, / light or dark--somehow or somewhat to the / Heart. Yet Yet it is not thwelve span before she / sags, stretches, becomes distorted. Her Bones / dry, her flesh melts, her Tounge is bitter, or / runs and outlawed Honey. Her Mind is cor- / rupt with the Cash of a pick-thank existance. / Life has taught her Life. She hath become / Friends with it, nor hath she lain long enough / upon her back--though she hath lain so half / her duration, to prefer the Coin of Ether. She / was not fashioned to swim in Heaven, she is a / Fish of Earth, she swims in Terra-firma. / From Ladies Almanack / Paris, 1928". The right side of the poster has the text: "Her / Tides / & / Moons". Below this there is a drawing of two naked female figuresin a sort of embrace they are rapped in a ribbon. The figure at left is reaching forward to touch a small stylized moon, the figure at right is reaching back to touch a small stylized sun. Both figures appear above a small stylized star.