Poetry Corner: Post Office

Pink mail box (Photo – Tom Clausen).

POETRY CORNER

– 9/30/15

Zee Zahava

waiting to buy stamps
two women behind me
practice yoga poses

no cardinals today
but look —
here comes our red-headed mailman

Zee Zahava lives in Ithaca , New York. There’s a blue mailbox on her street corner and she drops a postcard in it nearly every day, keeping up with friends near and far.

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Old mailbox (Photo – Tom Clausen)

Tom Clausen​

our old mailbox
now home
for a birds nest

twins tickled
with their new mailboxes
wait at the window

tiger lilies
almost hide the mailbox
in the heat

Tom Clausen​ is a life long Ithacan who has counted his trips to the mailbox every day as one of the highlights of everyday especially when he gets something personal or poetic or both! A day without mail, Sundays and holidays, have always felt to be something less than all those other days!

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Hidden mail box (Photo – Tom Clausen)

Amanda Dcosta

Her scribbled note
dormant in the mail
for months;
she writes
from heaven​

Amanda Dcosta lives in Ruwi, Oman. She says “Nana’s second-last letter to me ​was ​lost in the mail, and I finally received it nine months after she passed away. Her last letter turned up two years later. Her letters were of exquisite flair and writing style. She still holds me captive.​”​ Nana Pearl has been a great influence and instrumental in honing her writing talent, and poetic streak.

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* Photos by Tom Clausen, Ithaca, NY.

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