Bio
Laurence Morris is an academic librarian and a Fellow of the UK's Royal Geographical Society. He lives in the north of England and is an active mountaineer, his poetry exploring the relationships between people and places.
Laurence Morris
Yes, I still send postcards
Yes, I still send postcards,
for all the electric banshee howling
I still scatter these little shards
of temporary permanence,
more indelible now
for how they echo on and out in ink.
I launch these relics to the future
like bottles cast from a seashore
or stakes placed round a mining claim,
a sign that in this time and place
I stopped and smiled and thought of you,
and now nothing changes that.