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\"venice<\/a>
\n 
\nLetter with purple border<\/strong><\/p>\n

Those spacious months when we lived
\ncontinents apart, pens were back in,
\nour letters made days more bearable.<\/p>\n

Once you wrote to me using a sheet
\nfrom your 70s childhood paper pad
\nwith a purple flower garland border.<\/p>\n

You said the last letter you wrote on it
\nwas to Santa for something impossible.<\/p>\n

Grown-up you asked a new tall order
\nthat we might live together again.<\/p>\n

Behind you lay the poltergeists of gifts
\nyou never got, but this was granted.<\/p>\n

Now we live together in tired evenings
\nbut our work is another country.
\n 
\n<\/p>\n

\u00a0Album<\/strong>
\nFor Douglas Dunn<\/em><\/p>\n

After dinner he showed me
\nhis stamp albums, the fruit
\nof a life-time of collecting.<\/p>\n

Neat rows of fine specimens
\nwith tiny hack-saw edges,
\npriced in spent currencies.<\/p>\n

Though the cursive letters
\nhad long been discarded
\nthe senders and recipients<\/p>\n

reached the same address.
\nHe has made the means
\nof getting there his passion.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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