Remembering the corner mailbox.

Bear in mind that once upon a time people wrote messages on sheets of paper. These communiques were referred to as letters. Usually these letters were folded once or twice and slid inside sheaths called envelopes. The envelopes were in turn addressed and then dropped into neighborhood corner collection boxes widely distributed by a postal service that would, for a very small fee, deliver them to almost anywhere of your choosing.

the other day

while mammoth

feather crystals

floated from

a peaked sky

I thought

a thought

of ought

and decided

that I would

even in the white

trembling fist

of winter

snatch one

from its fall

and with

an icy pen

etch this missive

for stuffing

through a crack

into the black

below

where it might

mingle

with a thousand other

squalling flakes

of snow

whirling wide

and flung

far off

to in the end

alighting

melt these frozen words

before your very eyes

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