(Greeting card with handwritten poem in interior) by Margarete Ann Walters
(Greeting card with handwritten poem in interior)
Margarete Ann Walters
(Greeting card with handwritten poem in interior)
Margarete Ann Walters
1924 - 1971 (biography)Margarete Walters was a poet in addition to an artist. Here, she's printed an abstract image on fine laid paper collaged to heavy tinted gray wove, folded as a greeting card, and annotated on the interior with an original poem to friend and fellow artist, Genevieve Barnhart:
Today we celebrate beginnings / I remember here in the / hollow/ feet running/ and the noise of voices / in dialect / I hear them still.
Then sheep... / (That we always have here) / But the bleeting of a lamb / only one time a year.
I brush annoying sand from / my eyes and chase at dust.
They were there.
Here in the desert there are / skies, immense skies, / but once a real star came
a night like tonight / the baby came. / I'll put my hand there / again and touch the straw / warm with him / and see again the girl / small and you / of whom great things / were done.