{"id":40741,"date":"2022-12-29T06:30:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T17:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=40741"},"modified":"2022-12-28T20:16:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T07:16:37","slug":"australia-post-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2022\/12\/29\/australia-post-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Australia Post&#8221; &#8212; A Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, I mentioned receiving a parcel from AK Wilder, enclosing a gift of her books <em>Crown of Bones<\/em> and <em>Curse of Shadows<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-40732\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Crown-of-Bones_Curse-of-Shadows_26-12-22-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Crown-of-Bones_Curse-of-Shadows_26-12-22-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Crown-of-Bones_Curse-of-Shadows_26-12-22-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Crown-of-Bones_Curse-of-Shadows_26-12-22-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Crown-of-Bones_Curse-of-Shadows_26-12-22-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since Kim resides in Australia, the envelope bore the legend &#8220;Australia Post&#8221; &#8212; which of course reminded me of my poem of the same name. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Hence sharing it with you today: enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Australia Post<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The location on the postmark<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">looks Aboriginal \u2013<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">a smudged box number<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">provides no assistance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">I search for you in the gaps<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">between internet<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">and dog-eared telephone books,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">the drift between continents,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">listen to echoes,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">bounce off satellites \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">torn open,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">your letter<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">lies unanswered.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a9 Helen Lowe<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Published in <em><strong>The International Literary Quarterly<\/strong>,<\/em> Issue 14, February 2011<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, I mentioned receiving a parcel from AK Wilder, enclosing a gift of her books Crown of Bones and Curse of Shadows. Since Kim resides in Australia, the envelope bore the legend &#8220;Australia Post&#8221; &#8212; which of course reminded me of my poem of the same name. \ud83d\ude00 Hence sharing it with you today: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40744,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40741\/revisions\/40744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}