reading and writing with mrs merrifield


a full bloom bestowed

like rust of salt

yellow past like amber

froth from the sea

blew dry smalt


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On Saturday 21 March, please join me at 
The Slade School of Art’s 
Colour & Poetry: A Symposium VIII
free registration HERE

I’ll be reading three new poems
gleaned from recent research at
Historic Deerfield Memorial Library--
works/translations of Mrs Merrifield, 
Isaac Newton and other colour writers.
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[images from Syme’s “Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours’ found in the Stephen L. Wolf Collection at Historic Deerfield Library]

[Brece Honeycutt, reading & writing with mrs merrifield {graphite, tea, gouache, watercolor on paper}, featured in the online exhibition, The Nomenclature of Colours, The Slade School of Art]

[listen  here via Soundcloud to hear me read,  ‘reading & writing with mrs merrifield']