November 13th, Haiku #166

11/13/2020

To read a poem
is to be a child, devour
words like a great meal.

My child has been studying poetry, and she loves it. We have been reading Shel Silverstein for years at night, and now they are reading his work in class. She is learning all different types of rhyme and meter. Listening to her, and reading her homework is a feeling like cracking open a geode. Will there be crystals or empty space? All a discovery.

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Haiku Hand

To not lose the memory of my hands during COVID, I craft words as part of my artistic practice. I end the day in contemplation as a daily record of this time, and as an observational diary of my environment.

Rebecca Siemering lives and works in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA, as a fiber artist, arts administrator, and writer. She explores the theme of “wanting the good life,” utilizing found materials in her animistic sculpture and textile art. Her methodical and compulsive style of stitch and needlework reflects the original obsession-
to rise above the mundane, the sculpture embodying a soul that exists apart from the corporeal article of ink and pulp. Her recycled, paper-based work is in the collection of Fidelity Investments and has traveled in shows with the Robert C. Williams Paper Museum, the Fuller Craft Museum, and Fiber Art International.

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