Cover design for Renovo: germe poético que surge em frestas ("Renewal: a poetic germ that springs from cracks"), by Fabíola Mancilha Junqueira, published by Toma Aí Um Poema in 2024.

The germ in the crack. A single image: a two-leaved seedling, with its whole root system in view, occupying the centre of a pale-green rectangle. Nothing more. The subtitle — "a poetic germ that springs from cracks" — is all there: what sprouts is small, and the roots are the larger part.

Silence around. The green rectangle floats on a generous white page, with the title in serif at the top, in spaced capitals, and the author's name at the foot. It is the quietest cover in the set, and the closest to a botany book.