process poems

Etage

Etage
That process
Of etching over frottage
Arches pressed
On to mesh grids
18 gauge cold pressed
Ribbed steel
The ground
On which to work

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Found Material

Found material
On a host image
  Enamelled powder compact
Linen, maps, books,
Over printed
  Puzzles from kids’ books
  With matches and letters
  “A” for example
Surfaces
Pressed into ground
Print transferred from paper
And bitten
Paper pressed over
Gridded steel sheet

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The Detail Palm Sander

The detail palm sander
  With four grades
  of glass paper
Applied
To the plate
Creates
Gridded texture.

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The Plate

Over the plate
Layer printed papers
      Treated to give up their images
And press
Thus a collage of print image
Etched and inked