Maureen Hynes
Maureen Hynes has published six books of poetry, most recently Take the Compass.
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Maureen Hynes
Mailbox
March 2015
All night my dreams snowed letters. Singly
and in sheaves, envelopes fell into my hands,
big manilas and tissue-thin airmails,
some with Chinese script and Chinese stamps.
Pages folded and signed. On red stationery inside
a red envelope, a shout of congratulations.
And me carrying armfuls to the mailbox.
Waking, I wondered at this paper…