Postcardia-cum-Poetica #107

Image by Thomas Dworzak, Russia, February 2001. Words from Care of the Soul.

Postcardia-cum-Poetica #104

Bruno Barbey’s photo of tanners of Sidi Moussa (Fez, Morocco 1984) and words from Women Who Run With The Wolves.

Postcardia-cum-Poetica #103

Cornel Capa’s photo of Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe on the set of The Misfits (Nevada 1960) with words from Elyora.

Postcardia-cum-Poetica #101

Midnight. Trent Parke by himself. Menindee, Australia (2003) with words from Invisible Cities.

And just to prove the awesome beauty of serendipitous random draws… here are the fragments as they came out the bag.

Postcardia-cum-Poetica #100

When I began pasting poems to my weekly postcards, numbering and sharing them here, I didn’t expect that I would accumulate 100, or that 100 would feel more like shifting out of first gear and into second.

At the worst of things, creatively, these weekly poetic pairings have kept my flame alive. In the best of times, they’ve been a celebration of from the incredible ideas and projects that grow from something bigger!!

Here’s the most recent. And below it. The very first Postcardia missive. I had forgotten it started with hand coloured postcards!!!

Pebbles, JoJo and Ro on Baxter Street, from the series Prince Street Girls, by Susan Meiselas, New York (1978). Words from If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler.

Postcardia-cum-Poetica #99

Festival of Britain furnishing fabrics by John Barker for David Whitehead and Sons Ltd (1951) with words from my soon-to-be-released novelette The Starling Requiem.

Postcardia-cum-Poetica #98

Extension furnishing fabric by Hayden Williams for Heal’s (England, 1967). Words from Thomas Moore’s Care of the Soul.