Chap Book #3 Gone With The Wind
Learning craft from the wind
There was once a woman.
Who learned craft from wind, art from the sea and design
from the earth.
She sewed intricate organic patterns in labyrinthine
repeats.
Her creativity was celebrated through the land.
She was known as La Corachine, beautiful shell of the
sea.
Her daughter Powys was
as natural as the elements, precious as comfort and
radiant with gold-nature.
One day an old woman coloured like an autumn day came
to their door.
“I want what is yours.”
She said, and stuck a pin into the girl, who
transformed into a brown-bird and flew off.
“Old woman”, cried the mother, please cook a meat and
potato pie for us.
“Of course”, she sang, catching the brown-bird-daughter.
And made her into a pie with potato skins.
The leftover bones she threw into a corner of the
garden.
In three days, a beautiful tree grew there.
It bore three golden pears, which the mother harvested.
When she cut open the third fruit, out stepped Powys.
More beautiful than ever.
The old woman was packed-off to a distant land.
La Corachine and Powys grew in love together, in the
slow crafting of their days.
Filled with colour, stories, quilts and embroideries.
Inspired by the wind, the sea and the earth. They
said,
“We understand the lapping language of the river, and
the glistering of the stars,
the interconnectedness of humans and trees, speaking through
the mycelium”.
And there is always a bowl of pears near by.
Chapbook Series #3 _ Gone with the Wind
Collection of Poems & Stories
British Library Cataloguing Publication Data: A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: 978-1-916635-49-4
First Published Spring 2023Design by Cista Arts studio. Printed & bound in the United Kingdom.
Co-published by Mehri Publication Ltd & Cista Arts Ltd
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