a gift

i am a person who loves to give gifts

(as well as receive them)

i'm also a person who forgets things, special dates, etc.

(dates are numbers, numbers are slippery for me) 

this can be a problem, and i have been known to do odd things:

i have in my school bag a birthday card for a neighbor.

her birthday was around november 8th, more or less. see?

 a gift came to me this week

from pam

 whose shibori on paper astonished

and inspired me last summer

 well, these were wrapped up in cloth, 

walnut-dyed challis

 each one perfect.

 so i started playing

and playing and playing

 the cocoons have an affinity for each another

and hold on, hands-on, like hormonal teens

to one another!

 there is an amiable patterning

dancing across this page

 the brilliant white has been subdued

by pam's dyepots

 none of these photos were taken in good light

because all it does recently is snow

or threaten to snow

and it's winding into solstice. we are sun deprived.

so they began a new game on a morojifu folio,

 page from a book of secrets.