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This poem was composed after a work by Tom and Laurie Clark. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem is printed on the inside of the several folded card, the larger brown card for sail, the smaller white card for sheep. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The two folded cards, one in brown and one in white color have a similar phrase, "folding the last sail" and "folding the last sheep," respectively. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The title translated to 'clock of flowers.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Image on the card is a drawing of a plant with a clored butterfly on it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The card reads Joseph Bara 1779 - 1793 & Agricol Viala 1780 - 1793 surrounded by hobby horses and toy snare drums. Wikipedia 2011: Joseph Bara, also written Barra (30 July 1779, Palaiseau "“ 7 December 1793 Jallais) a young French republican soldier at the time of the Revolution. He was in fact too young to join the army but attached himself to a unit fighting counter revolutionaries in Vendée. After his death General J.-B. Desmarres gave this account, by letter, to the Convention. "Yesterday this courageous youth, surrounded by brigands, chose to perish rather than give them the two horses he was leading." The boy's death was seized on as a propaganda opportunity by Robespierre, who praised him at the Convention's tribune saying that "only the French have thirteen-year-old heroes". But rather than simply being killed by Breton royalists who solely wanted to steal horses, Bara was transformed into a figure who denied the Ancien Régime at the cost of death. His story became that...

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Image depicts a row of trees. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This depicts a warship with helicopters hovering about it as a metaphor for bees swarming about honey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This proposal calls for installation of calligraphic plaques within a stone walls enclosed garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This proposal calls for installation of lettered benches in Latin and German within a garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each of the 24 pages of this book consists of a single picture poem in the style of Ian Hamilton Finlay with whom the Clarks have collaborated. For example, a sundial is depicted with the caption, "The metronome is accurate but the sundial is faithful." All the poems deal with the outdoors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The pages depict black and white photographs of clumps of snow/ice on a slope of a hill. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.