collage in altered book
6 5/8 x 9 inches
Category: Collage
Once more I see the spindle fly
collage in altered book
6 5/8 x 9 inches
Once more I see the spindle fly
And though the spring’s no longer mine,
My pulses thrill to trace the sign
A leaf aglow with Autumn’s light
The Vision Widens
collage in altered book
6 5/8 x 9 inches
The vision widens as we mourn
And stars of half their light are shorn
By Heart
collage in altered book
6 5/8 x 9 inches
I cut that little piece of text out, intending to use it in one of the collage poems. And then I lost it. Which meant I had to go back through the entire book to find those two words AGAIN. And then this afternoon I found it, under the dining room table. I have no idea how it got there, but I felt like I’d better use it while I still had it in my hands.
The Gloaming
collage and oil pastel in altered book
6 5/8 x 9 inches
I have thought of rapture
Till the trembling strings weep
And Hope had died
ebbing,
Far across the fenceless night
In Ether Clad: Bonus Pages
Fronticepiece and Title Page
Dim shadows musing dreamily
There have been wrecks
on smaller seas.
A moment’s light, a rayless tomb
A swallow darting through the room
He might have sailed
from star to star,
To find a port from which to start
We weigh the planets one by one
While spirits make
their nightly round
In Ether Clad
An alphabet book of collage with altered poems taken from Wallace Bruce’s In Clover and Heather
5 x 3 1/2 inches
16 signatures (32 pages)
140lb Cotman cold press watercolor paper Coptic bound with linen thread
The set is here. I had a few extra pages, so there are four bonus spreads. I’ll scan and post those tomorrow.
Z
collage
5 x 6 3/8 inches
Zone where once
the storm-ship used to ride
Safe sheltered here
from dark and angry skies
Aaaaaaand it’s FINISHED! I’ve got some touching up to do tomorrow on end papers and whatnot, and then I’ll take photos of the completed book.
Y
collage
5 x 6 3/8 inches
You reason in circles, to find at last
The inner world in the outer masked.
X
collage
5 x 6 3/8 inches
X is the Queen
of the evening star
and queen of the moon
I know by heart.
red paper boat 