Making Your Paper: Nights In White Satin

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Letters never meaning
to send, I make your
marbled paper, ebru,
Turkish word for cloud,

Marbled paper, 'security paper'
to prevent illicit change in your
passionate text 16th century,
you my love, are the art of marbling,
a decorative insert, Album Amicorum,
Prague, bookbinding material,

Marbling, depositing colors upon
your watery surface made thick
through starchy, gum tragacanth,
I mix ox gall, making your paper,

Letters never meaning to send
causing the marbled white satin
to expand into thin films that keeps
us from commingling with one
another,

Making your paper, I finish your
pattern with my finger after which
a sheet of paper is laid on you to
absorb the Turkish pattern hatip-ebrusu,
flower pattern named after Mehmet Efendi,
marbler and preacher hatip in the
Aya Sophia mosque,

I bring half of the sheet down over you
and you are subjected to pressure as I
brush you with eggwhites and polish
your white satin to give it a washed
appearance ... do you know how much
I adore passionate calligraphy?

Making your paper: Nights in White Satin ...
Letters never meaning to send ...


Copyright 2006 Sage Sweetwater
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