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Letter - by Hugh McMillan

{ Poem }

Here is a letter
/ come across the ocean
/ over the back of a world
/ curved like a whale.
/ I unwrap it, like tissue,
/ and sentences…

Invitation - by Louise Greig

{ Poem }

Open house for crocodiles
/ Dress Code : Wear smiles
/ Juicy children for tea!
/ R.S.V.P.
/ …

The Letter Always Arrives at its Destination - by Niall Campbell

{ Poem }

Then I wrote often to the sea,
/ to its sunk rope and its salt bed,
/ to the large weed mass lipping the…

The Messengers - by Muriel Spark

{ Poem }

Arriving late sometimes and never
/ Quite expected, still they come,
/ Bringing a folded meaning home
/ Between the lines, inside the letter.
/
/ As a scarecrow…

from Tell Them - by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner

{ Poem }

I prepared the package
/ for my friends in the states
/ the dangling earrings woven
/ into half moons black pearls glinting
/ like an eye in…

from A – Z - by Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac ('Gaarriye')

{ Poem }

Remember the time when a man from the north
/ Wrote a letter received by a man from the south
/ And the second…

So Much for Mañana - by Judith Ortiz Cofer

{ Poem }

After twenty years in the mainland
/ Mother’s gone back to the Island
/ to let her skin
/ melt from her bones
/ under her native sun.
/ She…

Thor Heyerdahls mor - by Jan Erik Vold

{ Poem }

Thor Heyerdahl, en traust
/ og stillferdig
/ nordmann, som tenkte
/ sitt og ville
/
/ finne
/ ut om det
/ stemte – så han bygde seg en flåte
/ av balsa
/
/ på de…

Two Tokyos - by Shuntarō Tanikawa

{ Poem }

Withdrawing all his postal savings
/ and putting on his only suit,
/ he packed a bag with old newspapers
/ and went to a hotel…

Sărbători - by Ioana Ieronim

{ Poem }

Iarna şi primăvara, de sărbători circulau mici pachete în Transilvania; o pereche de şosete împletite, mănuşi din resturi de lână,…

Je t’écrivais… - by Valérie Rouzeau

{ Poem }

Je t’écrivais des cartes postales pour tous
/ les jours.
/
/ Deux le vendredi donc à cause du dimanche.
/
/ Des crocus coloriaient la neige…

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