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My home is the soil I carry with me,
the dirt I made myself
from the food I didn’t finish
cut ends that didn’t go into the soup
fruit that molded too soon.
Energy cannot be created or destroyed,
only transformed.
My plants and I dine from the same menu
then in exchange
I eat a leaf or flower
or sometimes a true fruit
and we are one.
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Mariwyn Curtin is an artist and writer living in Detroit, MI. She explores cities extensively by bicycle and on very long walks, then documents the experiences in artists' books or abstractly as "industrial embroidery" assembled from ephemera found along the way. An author and editor primarily in educational publishing, she is happiest writing about Detroit artists for the publications Essay'd and New Art Examiner and crafting poems weekly with the poetry group, Circle.
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