here/away

 public signage/art/joy 

maybe?

 i don't know about this woman

but during art walk

there was a tall woman with her dogs 

(she was a stilt figure and the dogs were girls)

and i heard the phrase "mud people"

 one of two sore thumbs

short nails are not designed

to be bast scraping tools

 on the milkweed

i found this wee one,

and susan and i sourced 

a new, living milkweed for it

along ditch creek

 half a b(l)ast

this reminds me

 i love this flower

it looks like it's from 

elsewhere

shifu play on a couple of stump looms

~~~

during artwalk helen hiebert

and her kids came to visit!

her first book

with its profiles of many papermakers

 helped me approach new plants

in my papermaking

(that book along with the amazing lilian bell

plant fibers for papermaking)

~~~

one thing among many that moved me,

a careful, every page reading of the hortus siccus exemplar

by an artist visitor

and a comment

about it being the finest book he'd read

in a long time.