Vermiculture Furniture Design - Spring 2013

This was an exciting experiment in workshopping ideas about bringing a living decomposer ecosystem into the human domestic space.  Wonderful group of Ohio State University students, two of whom worked extra hard to put this book together.  Check it out!

http://issuu.com/wormsinourfurniture/docs/vermibook


With a small contribution from me (below)  and amazing work on everybody's part.

                                             Crochet and Compost

                                                     
Soil

The sibilant 's' slides quietly into the open oil
of a liquid landfall.
A slight growl pushes air into what is round
beneath the feet.
Ground.
The dental stability of final sound an anchor
on planet underfoot.
But here, the liquid.
Soil.
No labial pout, no punctuation.

So much for definition.

Worms turn in the soil of our syntax,
enriching excrementally
the nature of our understanding.
All lips and liquid boundaries.
Mouthfuls of earth in endless periods.
This life.  And this life.  And this life.

A surface of soil, at midpoint to tree,
cushions the foot.
Some surface in a plowed field sucks at the boot
and removes it.

Some surfaces slip inside and under.
Feet sink into surf.
Toes splayed in mud and sand grow no roots.
Attempting, though, a pirouette,
Striking some balance of the awe-struck.