The Original Tree Poems - Marie Wintzer

I can pick out a Marie Wintzer envelope from across a room, from a corner under a stack of mail… Marie has a style that is unique. and yet this envelope has some echoes of her friends, I sense Vizma in the stamps and tape and Carina in the characters and yet it is wholehearedly Marie.  The refashioned vispo of the flower parachutist is wonderful!

One of the stamps that I should bring to your attention is thebookwormslunch.com that is marie's non-mail art website. In case you don't know, Marie makes artist books and  writes poets; she makes books of arresting originality, her photos are exquisite and her poetry affecting.  So, you can imagine how I felt when I opened the envelope and discovered the original pages of her recent 'Tree Poems'.  Aren't poets and artists meant to save (or sell) those originals?

Marie sent me a little letter too, in it she told me she had decided to free the original tree poems, so sent them TO ME.

The poems are on what I imagine to be daily scraps.  I guess they are trashpo in their own way. 

If you want to read the poems in order  (I muddled them up when I created the display) you can find them here:
http://mariesuitcase.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/tree-poems-or-how-to-grow-forest-on.html
Or you can download the book from scribd.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/248600378/Tree-Poems

Marie has been traveling with work, to DC this time, where she must have been to the postal museum, because she picked up some freebies that she enclosed in the envelope.

Lots to read, look at and think about here and I love the image of attempting to grow a forest on quicksand! Many many thanks, Marie!