there are blades
between my toes
my fingernails pierce
accidental wounds
and the grass gets in
chlorophyll under the skin
you grow into an earth mother
and forget me for bigger things
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
061. Grasswritten
Today, Stephen Hastings-King has a beautiful picture of grasses that I couldn't help but steal and experiment with again. I travelled from the rolling wheat-and-cornfields of rural Indiana back to the baked concrete of Detroit, and the green is still speaking to me...
there are blades
between my toes
my fingernails pierce
accidental wounds
and the grass gets in
chlorophyll under the skin
you grow into an earth mother
and forget me for bigger things
there are blades
between my toes
my fingernails pierce
accidental wounds
and the grass gets in
chlorophyll under the skin
you grow into an earth mother
and forget me for bigger things
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lovely. i really like the reprocessed image. strangely, the image is a photomicrograph of some japanese paper. i'd had it around for a long time hoping to find a way to use it. then i did. then you did. i think it's great.
ReplyDeletewow - I was totally convinced it was grass, not fibres - still beautiful
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