Found and Forgotten Things
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Cracked
I’ve been having fun making found poetry this past week. It’s like collage only using words. The poem written in the above image reads:
cracked
found in the sand
between you and me
contents emptied
forgotten by now
Each line is from its own source, found as a complete phrase in some of my own creative writing, a recipe from a cook book and an instruction manual.
The doll head in the drawing is real. I found it in the garden two autumns ago while picking brussels sprouts. We live in an old farm house and the back of the property must have once been where a previous family dumped things they no longer wanted. After heavy rains or wind, the soil shifts, revealing household remnants of china and glasss shards, buttons, rusty belt buckles, tarnished coins, tiny medicine bottles, marbles, wheels off toy cars…
The doll’s head was by far the coolest thing I have found yet. I wonder how long she stared at us walking by her before I discovered her. She would have been tiny, her head is about an inch long; she is wearing a 1920’s flapper hat with a blue stripe on it. She has a mischievous smirk, she is not a classic beauty, but she is exquisite in her own right. I call her Betty.
