Art Prints for the Clothesline

The following four poems were written ekphrastically in response to an exhibit of visitor-created art prints displayed on dowels at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, which I visited as part of a Haiku Northwest outing on 10 May 2025, with the poems written 6 June 2025 in Sammamish, Washington. These four poems were published in Ink, edited by Dianne Garcia, a limited-edition hand-bound chapbook published by Haiku Northwest Press in October of 2025. Below, too, are eight additional poems (previously unpublished) also written in response to the art prints but not included in the book. These poems might all be considered “found poems,” at least partially.