collage and altered poem in handmade book
3 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches
The birds that were banished,
Follow and vanish
In a seething vapor sea.
I need to take five minutes and scan these, but cell phone photos will have to do for now.
Category: Poetry
Dreams to Dreams
collage and altered poem in handmade book
3 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches
Dreams to dreams
Shorn of leaves
Drawing near the sun
Through and through
The shadows shoot
And stars drop,
One by one.
The Salt Sea Storm
The salt sea storm
Here heaves my boat
Upon the never was shore
We’re supposed to be packing up all the extraneous junk in our cubicles, so I spent some time today taking down my poetry magnets. I made one last poemlet before I boxed them up.
The Wildest Moon
The wildest moon
whispers true
a thousand fortunes blue
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
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
Repentance
Swift sped curse,
white-winged prayer
race bat-like
through heavenly stars
shorn and cold
Hang the darkness
Bind the sky.
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
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.
red paper boat 