Broadsides

Spring — Marilyn Krysl

Spring I have loved so many in this world so long that now this love flows in me like water rising from the core of the earth pouring out where I am myself the spring

Winter — Jennifer Heath

My beloved on a white parchment with my heart’s blood I write to you.
My pen is my dagger
clean and golden-gripped.

Summer — Lucia Berlin

They drove along the empty road . . .fragrant and lush with flowers, pink blue, magenta, red. Bursts of yellow and lavender . . .hot perfumed air. . .

Ordering information
Broadsides
approx. 7.5 by 15 inches,
full-color print on white coated-stock.
Set of four. Un-numbered edition.

$20 + $5 postage and packaging

Send cheque or money order to:
TreeHouse Press
PO Box 1144
Ojai, CA 93024

Autumn — Susan Edwards

What is there to moan about? Kitchen’s painted rash’s is gone Love’s given and taken in full measure Friends close, enemies far Sunflowers bow to the autumn dryness
Only challenge now is how to channel the Virgin Mary

Broadsides began as The Word On The Street over 300 years ago. Originally printed as one-page illustrated proclamations posted on the broad side of a building or fence, broadsides gave public notice of royal decrees, later becoming a vehicle for political agitation. Soon ballads and songs, scaffold speeches and other public declarations found form as broadsides.

TreeHouse Press interprets the broadside as an illustrated one-page poem. Here are four examples, arranged thematically around
the seasons.