bloodroot

 the parts don't seem to go together

delicate white blossom

gold surprises

leaves huge and weirdly wrapped,

flower hiding out, then

hiding under

then gone

 and then

huge fat leaves

almost tropical

but deep underground

like an old arthritic finger

a fat, red twig-thing

bleeds orange when broken

bloodroot.

~~~

big winds again tonight

and i dyed some shifu.

two books

 work for the exhibition:

Natural Colours Exhibition 2012 Miyagi-Tohoku
two books about
 north country

bloodroot and violet

shifu, slot and tab, natural dyes

a page spread

spine 

the poem does not want to live inside this book

so it's printed separately.
a small, cube of a book

~and~

Indigo Patterns

shifu with slippery elm bark

stationers binding, sewn on tapes, tacketed

vintage pattern paper, indigo dyed
a nice reading in bed sized book
posted first to oz, then to japan. 

a different time

today's issue of HAND EYE 

has a little article by me.

lots of color: green!

~~~

late summer color

 i've been much in the kitchen

and the yard

dyeing

paper drying on window,

screen behind

 and from the freezer

last springs color 

the bundle looked hopeless 

but was a surprise 

new work for japan

bloodroot and violet

surprise 

this was left behind

  on the printing matter,

viola, bloodroot, wild rose

wendy's in this world

resting, mostly.

your words

support us in a sail of caring.

playing catch up

this week away from teaching hooligans 

has been respite.

however, i have been 

busy to crazy busy

playing catch up.

thank you, carol! 

there were mail presents

and an order came in

 

which included seeds

 i continued with my new book

(thanks, lee) 

 and finished up the zine

 that goes with the zine.

whew!

 bloodroot is marvelous

 protected by those big leaves

 clouds and cool weather

(there was snow in the mountains

but not here)

 fiddleheads beginning

 and heron events.

i have been looking at the eagles, too

 but the herons

i have fallen hard for them!

more news tomorrow, i think!

blue promises and blood

i like great blue herons

 and at the cornell ornithology lab 

there's a webcam set up

to spy

i sat, spellbound

a cyber spy

 the heron, carefully moving about

rearranging the architecture

taking good care of the blue promises

and another miracle 

i've been waiting for

bloodroot