post and mail Archives

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…