'Addressing Xmas cards,' I wrote in my diary yesterday. 'It is odd. Much as I like sending and receiving Christmas cards to and from old friends, it is alarming jus how many "new" friends - I mean of the last 20 years or so - I don't have postal addresses for, that I only communicate with digitally. There is a clear digital cut-off point in the first few years of the century.' (Also there is a reluctance to give a postal address. Again this seems odd: I knew some addresses by heart of poets who were publishers right up to the end of the last century: only I. S. does this now. (See, even I'm playing into this by reverting to his initials!)).
So here in the video is this year's card: Patricia's image and my poem (I had to provide it very quickly: it's carved from my daily writing called 'Ark and Archive' (I have reach 960 pages of it to date!).
HAPPY CHRISTMAS to those who will receive this card physically and those who can now access car and image and poem digitally. (Usually our cards are New Year cards: this one, singularly, seems Christmassy.
