The Poetry Postcard Fest is a challenge which encourages poets to write an unedited poem on a postcard and send it to a stranger. Organised by the Cascadia Poetics Lab, who organise the participants into lists of 31 + yourself for you to address your offerings to. This was my first year and hearing about it just in time to register, I was on List 15. The lists are sent out in early July and you have until the end of August to send out your missives – to date I have received 20 of 31 possibles and now that we are into September, it is allowable to share the cards and poems you sent and the cards but not the poems you received. I will share these in the order of sending and I will miss out those which I have not yet received in case they arrive soon…
Although the original poem is to be sent as written – crossings out, blots and all, I have typed them out for people who can’t read my writing and I am allowing myself to edit if I feel like it…
Dear Darla
There are no baby pictures
to share with you, the grand
-children are grown up and
scattered to the wind
but girlfriends are maturing
and the sound of great grand-
children grows off-stage
waiting in the wings
nascent ready, D.V.
as my mother used to say.
Meantime I offer you
a happy couple and newborn
painted to my prompt
by an AI in the style of
1960’s Ladybird books
are they not divine
too good to be true…
© Andrew Wilson, 2023
And below is the card I received from Darla…
