WILD ROSES/ROVE. 1994.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1994)
13.0 x 6.5cm, 4pp artist’s card with a poem on the front:

wild roses

roses
roses

roses
rove

roses
reefed

Finlay explains that Rove here is a nautical term meaning led through and fastened (as in the case of a rope) and Reefed means to be shortened, taken in. The flowers are bunched and made into a bouquet in this visual poem. VG+.