Stamp Collecting for Scott Japanese butterfly, squid, duck hunters of San Marino, Hungarian Sputnik, moon-landing in Grenada— down they fluttered, sun-strobed, buoyed by an updraft—this boyhood type collection of stately nations, thinly populated and scattered to the sky from my bedroom window by my brother, whom I’d poked imperiously for too long, his seething suddenly gone postal. Now on my knees, I find Lincoln, Kennedy in Togo, Jordan; Elizabeth, George, wherever the sun has set; this sinking world re-posted, re-collected from between blades of grass—now to be re-cancelled, this time freshly chastened by old glue of a forgotten piety: each sovereignty delivered, received, with less imperial intent— the call: to find and undo the more than odd inverted jenny, long hidden from view in a rare and treasured past. *An 'Inverted Jenny' is a rare United States postage stamp first issued on May 10, 1918, in which the image of the Curtiss JN-4 (Jenny) biplane was accidentally printed upside-down. By pure coincidence, its date of issue, May 10, is my brother's birthday.
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Moon landing in Grenada got me thinking! Lovely poem with gorgeous stamps.
Wonderful!