Tag: poem
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Celebrating the shortest days
A riddle My first is in Jack but it’s not in his box My second’s in hours but never in clocks My third is in earth but it’s missing from clay My fourth is in night but it’s absent by day My fifth is in treasure but not found in thief My sixth is in…
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Accordion books
Accordion book with expressive calligraphy on white paper using oak twig and homemade iron gall ink. Additional marks made with watercolours. Board covers and supporting pages made from heavyweight brown paper painted with iron gall ink, watercolours and gouache. Measures 170mm high x 133mm wide x approx 20mm deep when folded. Fastens with cream cotton…
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Oak
OAK At the back of the churchyard an oak has rooted beside a grave; each year the lichened slab is covered with galls. Searching among tussocks of wet grass I find celandines, primroses, violets, last year’s foxgloves springing again from the base of a plinth; Reginald William Hobhouse, Son of . . . Died Oct…