Epigraph

Lost in Hell, Persephone,

Take her head upon your knee;

Say to her, "My dear, my dear,

It is not so dreadful here."

—Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems

The bleeding heart is a pink and white flower that bears a striking resemblance to the conventional heart shape. It is also referred to as the heart flower or as lady-in-bath.

The flower is known to be poisonous to the touch and deadly to consume.

And, like the mythological goddess Persephone, it only blossoms in spring.