loving planet earth the way she loves her linens

 

starting a new piece inspired by
women's handkerchiefs and red thread

and our Canadian poet, PK Page

the trees must be washed and the grasses and mosses

they have to be polished as if made of green brass.

the rivers and little streams with their hidden cresses

and pale coloured pebbles

and fools gold

must be washed and starched

or shined into brightness,

the sheets of lake water

smoothed with the hand

and the foam of the oceans pressed into neatness

from Planet Earth by PK Page