I had been practicing my django fontina for almost a year. There was something about being somewhere or nowhere and dropping the postcard poem addressed to someone I never knew. It started in the summer after my third grade when I entered my name in a postcard pyramid scheme. It was more fun to get than to give. I got postcards of moose in Canada, Lake Okoboji, farmland in Indiana, and cats. My favorite were the cats; cats in baskets, cat in a shoe, cat being fed some milk. At some point the getting and giving stopped and I was left with a pile of postcards, a few scrawled out words from other soon to be fourth graders and all those images.
My adult postcarding has way more words. Most adults like words but are limited by the amount of space they are allowed on the back (or front) of a small piece of thick paper called the postcard. I enjoy being limited in my words.
My receiving django fontina is limited because I don’t always know where I am half the time and the P.O. won’t forward.
return to sender
poems sent into the world
to complete stranger
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Doing a double take on dVerse prompt on “poem” (How Does a Poem Mean? I think that is a book I studied by John Ciardi) and NaPoWriMo on switching up so in this case it is better to get than to give.
wordshophop 
Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #7: Jane Swanson’s latest #haibun for #dversepoets and #napowrimo2018!
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Thanks Frank. This is my first reblog so i’m feeling like it was a “play it forward” instead of a “return to sender”.
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😆 My pleasure, Jane! 😇
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Nice piece – and the Django Fontina is a great term – (always good when you learn something – so thanks)
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SMiLes.. i’ve Literally sent out Thousands
of Poetry Response Post Cards to ‘Total
Strangers’ all over the
World in the
last 56
Months or so
accumulating almost
6 Million Poem Words
at the Home of my Blog
from that in Copy and Paste
that goes somewhere around
an average of 30K or so words a
Week and 300 or so Visually Streaming
Poetic Photographs that tale a Poem in
Visual Ways to accompany that too.. with
30 to 40 or so YouTube Videos to make a Full
Multi-Media Play of what is even worthy of a
“SonG oF My SoUL” as a Personal Bible
For the SpiRiT
oF mY HeaRT
to Do and it’s
True for if i was
a Fisherman i would
Starve this way for few
Fish in the Ocean of Poetry
come up to smile at the Bait of
mY Soul but the thing is i see no
one as a Stranger and everyone no
matter what as FriEnd for it’s True
after each Visit i absorb a little
bit of their SoUL and Write
it out in My Language
as My SoUL
continues
to be Nourished
by the Love of others
as they Volunteer their
Souls as Shared For A World
to consume as Free.. it’s True
these are the best days to Give and
Share it’s True for Those who do it Heaven’s Hear..:)
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Nicely done. Thanks for hooking up to the prompt.
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