I am so over the moon to share my first episode of Cemented Ink with the Founder of Bruno Press, Mary Bruno; we discussed numerous subjects throughout this podcast which I have referenced for you below to follow along.
Also, kindly note in the middle of this interview to honour the release of Tony Moore’s Let Your Heart Begin to Sing, today Tony has graciously allowed me to share it with all of you today; moreover, that fun music you heard at the beginning at the end is also courtesy of Tony.
Enjoy the audio & optic feast!
“A product of soft-spoken parents, I came out fighting.” Mary Bruno
* Photo credit Mary Bruno
And the poem I mentioned I was going to write… here it is…
Inked and ready for the world
Please touch me
I want you to feel
the textured parchment
I was pressed into
I was designed by Mary Bruno
you know, if you ever sliced her open
as writers would bleed letters and syntax
Mary would spill typeset letters
and printers ink
Sit down, pour a whiskey
listen, to my origin story
I was printed on an antique press
before anything was placed onto me
the machine had to be prepped
although before that inks
need to be blended
for the cool hues
you see all over me
The ink is placed in small globs
on the roller, and then the magic happens
imagine this for a moment please
a large storm cloud, that becomes thinner
and thinner, as it is squeezed through a roller
a colour that spreads all over
to create the perfect
fine texture
Dreamy landscapes
fortify artistic impressions
in a fashion conducive
to the truest form of comprehension
that art genuinely
turns
my world
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