what happens when...

in case you wanted to know, but perhaps never thought to try

this is what happens

when one wraps a piece of damp kelp

in a piece of silk

and then

forgets to unpack it from the compost at the bottom of the suitcase

on returning home from far away

i found this fragment last night

when scraping out the depths of the Green Monster

in preparation for onward wandering on Friday

it hasn't been boiled or steamed

just quietly sulking for a month

in my very cold room

slow dyed but not at all mindfully

in fact

out of sight and out of mind entirely

[there goes that theory!]

i did wash and dry it before i made the photo

cos it was a tad slimy

but the silk doesn't seem to have been damaged at all

even though the kelp was fresh from the sea

[originally]

now i think a silk dress

wrapped in kelp

and left to rest a while

might be a very beautiful thing indeed

time is your friend...