here in colorado

i put this little book together 

on saturday night,

 to remind me that i do make things.

 the pages are my papers, 

all roughed up and sewn up, too

the cover comes from melissa

 and then,

suddenly, i'm in another place

where the landscape goes all sideways

 but at terraphilia

 there's just a jumble of good 

 stuff

 an early morning visitor

 stuff

 stuff

 on the mountain

 in the garden

this, THIS, i love.

stash/edges

all winter i have been ecoprinting.

on flax, 

milkweed,

hosta,

abaca,

 arches text wove, 

and on lokta

PAPERS

and

on shifu, textiles, and threads.

i've bound up a few books

and have the covers ready for an edition of 

HORTUS SICCUS

my

dry garden.

i hope that while i travel out to colorado

for the terraphilia residency

to bring along my hortus siccus,

to explore what is a very dry garden, indeed.

i leave a week from today.

~~~

last night i visited the county jail

and a young man i know

and have new thoughts about how

we treat

those on the edges.

i wonder about edges, how rich they are

until you slip over

and get lost.
~~~
after terraphilia,
i will drive north to estes park
to visit my heart school
eagle rock school and professional development center
and teach a little workshop.
ian and hannah graduated from ers.
it's a place
for teenagers to get found,
not lost.
~~~

the last of the eucalyptus