Selected for inclusion in the juried exhibition Celebrating American Poetry: An Exhibition of Contemporary Letter Arts sponsored jointly by The Frye Art Museum and Letter Arts Review. From the 1998 catalogue:

This work is an experiment in noninked text. The letterforms were defined by cutting away the negative space. The layering of "leaves" and the materials chosen were reflective of the mood and title of the poem. By presenting a short poem in a book format, each stanza is delegated to a space of its own and its reading is enhanced by the tactile turning of each page.

by William Carlos Williams

A stand of people
by an open

grave underneath
the heavy leaves

celebrates
the cut and fill

for the new road
where

an old man
on his knees

reaps a basket-
ful of

matted grasses for
his goats