You've seen "give a penny, take a penny" bowls in bookstores. What about "give a haiku, take a haiku"? To celebrate the importance and power of poetry, let's share haiku everywhere we go.
Check out my haiku sharing project.

POETRY & ART INTEGRATIONS

My experiments in dying cloth and paper using iron oxide, copper, or alum mordant and botanicals (e.g. walnut leaves, pokeberries, elderberries, redbud leaves, beetroot) and then enhancing with watercolors have led to poetry/eco-print fusions. Here is an example of a tanka poem and copper-watercolor fusion:

 

Freeing the Poem



May this eco-print
free the tissue-thin layers
of that first attempt . . .
mere words, love's tangle flattened.
Here colors tendril, quiver.

Here's another example, a mulberry-paper scroll with wool threads among ten gold figures and haiku lettering:

The next two images showcase palimpsests of memoir sections, handwritten on eco-print books and laid on acrylic-printed silk.

Another technique is to paint a leaf or flower and use a hot iron to press it to paper.
Thus my "Shapeshifters" book.

Update 29 March 2025
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