wish you were here...

Posted by j. (taipei, Taiwan) on 25 April 2008 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.

but the picture postcard, a poem on vacation,
that forces us to sing our songs in little rooms
or pour our sentiments into measuring cups.
...
We locate an adjective for weather.
We announce that we are having a wonderful time.
We express the wish that you were here

and hide the wish that we were where you are,
walking back from the mailbox, your head lowered
as you read and turn the thin message in your hands.
-american sonnet, billy collins