Anna Couani #200

collagraph printed intaglio and relief

sometimes naturalism can get in the way of the real

plucking at our heart strings

evoking false sentiments

being banal

insisting with its signifiers

but texture and colour can sing

like the traditional finger painted end papers

of old books

something beautiful to see and touch

the binding, the headband

maybe a bit of leather

and readers barely appreciating

the fact that a book opens flat