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 Toni
A solitary crow does not
a murder make
I like to think
I am not even sinister
unlike the direction
sign I sit upon
I will not even defend my perch
if a bigger bird takes a notion
to supplant me, in a blink
I will fly away to keep the peace.
You thought different?
We crows get a bad press
but I don’t care a jot…
© Andrew Wilson, 2023
Toni told a tale of being scandalised by a (very young) naked Englishman! Below is her card to me…
