Postcards

How to use this old technology of the postcard with its marriage of image and text its insistence that every exchange has twosides which can never be considered at the same time to write oneself back into the world The traveller alights in Colombia Bolivia Brazil even in Canada finding words for the old wounds sitting for a portrait in the middle of the city out of doors alone in a crowd The military ghosts are never far their costumes barely able to cover up the casual brutalities even as the citys citizens come together in unexpected formations inventing new lives and conversations like the plant life that flourishes around them as resplendent as weeds One of his most perfect and most personal reflections a letter from the heart