stamp album
a page from a country
that no longer is
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Linda Papanicolaou
Linda Papanicolaou is an art historian and art teacher in the Bay Area of Northern California. She has been writing haiku for about 25 years and is currently serving as president of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society.
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Great to see this again!
A lot of countries are still under threat, I wonder how many pages of stamps belong almost on a fictional plane?
Interesting capture of change, Linda—makes me wonder how many other things we buy into will be invalidated by time, and how many don't really exist to begin with. Alan mentions the "fictional plane." Surely this includes the imaginary borders we draw around countries, which, barring the Great Wall of China, are entirely invisible from space. "a country that no longer is" indeed.
cupping our hands
to dip into the stream
of digital content
we come up
thirsty
Great to see this again!
A lot of countries are still under threat, I wonder how many pages of stamps belong almost on a fictional plane?
Interesting capture of change, Linda—makes me wonder how many other things we buy into will be invalidated by time, and how many don't really exist to begin with. Alan mentions the "fictional plane." Surely this includes the imaginary borders we draw around countries, which, barring the Great Wall of China, are entirely invisible from space. "a country that no longer is" indeed.
cupping our hands
to dip into the stream
of digital content
we come up
thirsty
Linda. Great haiku. You. Say so much sbout our changing world.
email about philately.
my father’s land was
Soviet occupied
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