The poet’s voice weaves oral recitation into speculation on manuscript traditions and the inevitability of ephemeral life. The calligraphy and imagery presents ink over stain residue creating a palimpsest, derived from found book pages, which offers a poignancy and dry humor to the eternal cycle. These ideas contrast our own ephemeral materiality and the matter of the physical world. For me, there is a love of materials as I make my book objects – an awareness of paper, ink, proportion, color, relationships, finish, detail, all parts to the whole. I am making an aesthetic object, even a beautiful one, as a carrier of important ideas.