Postcard Poetry: Day 1

Postcard Poetry starts today, in which every day through August I'll send a postcard with a poem to another poet on the list. I am very excited about this project! It is my first time participating in anything like this, and I'm really ready to write a poem a day (no matter how rough it may be). I purchased blank watercolor postcards that I'm painting, just to add a little more of a personal touch. I'll be posting one a day. I'm actually supposed to do 3 today and mail them, but I have to go buy more stamps! So for now, here's #1 of the Postcard Poetry Challenge.

Close up of the poem:

And if my handwriting is bad, translation:

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Attack

As I was soaking up

beautifully scorching drops

from our shared shower head, I hear a noise --

I snap! -- ready for an intruder

I think of the coffee mug holding our toothbrushes,

how I would launch it with icy precision at a strange eyebrow

blood pouring, steam rising from my naked skin, heavy breaths --

I realize how strong I am, how savagely I will fight.

If you are living / I cannot die.

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Thoughts: I can't fit as many words as I thought on the postcards! Eeek.

Check back for more words and watercolor.

jb