Last week my friend Patricia and I went for an evening walk in the Union Bay Natural Area, which is an area along the shore of Lake Washington a bit north of Husky Stadium behind the UW playing fields. It's a wonderful place to walk without many other people around. The area is a former landfill that has been/is being restored to a more natural state with rustling grassland, big trees, wetlands, and is full of wildlife, especially waterfowl: ducks, geese, eagles, osprey, and herons. We saw a blue heron catch and swallow a fish, which bulged in its throat as it went down. We also saw a beaver swimming in the lake, many rabbits, and a large gathering of crows having a party.
We took a short jog off the main trail to get closer to the water's edge and this is what we saw:
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| Photos by Patricia Spencer. |
Two leaves were floating on the green surface of the shallows and they appeared to have writing on them.... I found a stick and was able to use it to pull these found poems out of the water. They both had the same love poem written on them in tiny black printing.
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| "Your body undulates in generous curves" |
In the language of books, a leaf "refers to the smallest, standard physical unit of paper in a printed piece; in the case of books and pamphlets, usually with a printed page on each side of a leaf; a broadside is printed on a single side of a single leaf." (ABAA Glossary of book terms.)
Heart-shaped miniature broadsides.
