Here is a poem based on Poetry Online’s prompt to write a poem of postcard length that addresses someone and perhaps suggests a place from which the speaker is writing You can go here for the prompt and to read poets’ responses. https://poetsonline.org/archive/arch_postcards.html .
A REQUEST FROM POETS TO THE MUSES IN LATE DECEMBER
We are in a liminal space.
An in-between time. The days
after Silent Night and before
Auld Lang Syne. It’s a time
of fragmentation. A time of ache.
A solitary time when our wants are
lean and spare—a little sustenance
from the ravens, a little music,
a little rhyme. These three things.
Though rhyme alone would satisfy.
Published by Poetry Online, Jan 2025.