HOSTA FLOWER. 1994.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1994)
12.2 x 8.5cm, 4pp artist’s card with a drawing by Gary Hincks on the front. Internally there is a poem by Finlay: <BR><BR>

HOSTA FLOWER<BR><BR>

An old summer dress<BR>

shared by sisters<BR>

its purple faded<br>

to lavender, fitting<BR>

no-one, a thousand<BR>

times in the wash<BR><BR>

The Hosta Flower is the Plantain lily which invaded America in the 1800s from Asia. Finlay sees the colour as reminiscent of the faded colours of poor families. VG+.