Medieval Calligraphy
Childless ascetics
inscribed hours
in ebony
and leaf gold,
illuminating prose
with the wonder
and color of
the divine garden,
idly adding adolescent doodles:
absurd figures quarrelling
and farting in the margins.
Christina E. Petrides lived and worked on Jeju Island, South Korea, for 6.5 years. Her eponymous website is: www.christinaepetrides.com
See more of her work in 12.3