For the past six months, the poet Melissa Green sent an unusual word — ‘whorls,’ ‘tesserae,’ ‘hessian’ — to her friend and student, Nora Delaney. The poems in this short chapbook are the result of this daily invitation to write contemplate and write about the depth of implication any word may possess.
Rather than a standard binging, the separate leaves of the chapbook are held together with a paper band.
"Immortelles for the boutonniers of groomsmen.
Corsages of forget-me-nots for ladies in everwaiting.
All of Eden wailing bonnet-blue for Eve and Adam,
and the thistles of waste barring Blake from the garden."
- from "The Garden of Love"
One poem in this chapbook has been published previously; “That Other Fall” appeared in the 2010 issue of Little Star literary magazine.
