Wood: mortising
Mortising is the art of preparing a hole in a piece of wood so that it will receive another piece of wood into itself, tightly and with a perfect fit. Maybe this is a better way to think about a poem.
Measuring the mortise I didn’t just mark a couple of mortises yesterday. I also started cutting them. I’m still working on this saw-bench Bent, a small wooden frame that supports one end of a board while the other is the target of the attentions of my saw blade. Each of these mortises is supposed to be two inches (2″) deep, about five-sixteenths (5/16″) wide, and two inches long. I’ve made mine…











