Mail Call


Postcard. Blue-green water, pale blue sky, sailboat, rowboat, glossy, rocks.

Postcard. Slightly creased, slightly dog-eared, slightly over a fortnight in transit.

Postcard. Addressed Berkeley, California, leaky blue ballpoint.

Postcard. Pale red cancellation, postmarked 28 11 97, Hanoi.

Postcard. I will read it tonight on campus, under Sather Gate,
even in chill mid-winter rain.



JDP 97/12


Copyright John D Porter © 1997

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