Text/Textile

These textile poems explore ideas of illegibility, power, and feminized labor during the Salem witch trials, documenting the voices of young girl accusers (“the afflicted”) using a medium familiar to them: the cross-stitched sampler.

“Mosquito”

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Back of “Mosquito”

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“A Yellow Bird”

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Back of “A Yellow Bird”

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“Reversals”

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Back of “Reversals”

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Plotting “E” on graph paper.

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“FA CE TH / EAN IM / ALFA / CES”

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“OCCULT, O CUT”
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