Birch Bark, 2016 20″ x 32″ (panel size) / 25″ x 37″ (frame size)
Entry 2: Birch Bark
My mother told me the Iroquois
Used it for paper, but I was never to peel
Any from the live trees on the hill that ran down
From my grandfather’s house to the sand cliff
Above the lake. It was enough to find a few curved scraps
And set them floating.
-Jordan Smith