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.