When Your Letters Came

When your letters came...

I stuck the stamps in my scrapbook,

sent my dreams to a secret shore. 

A place imagined from each tiny image:

peeled palm trees,

grand ships and heroes,

a magical land 

where you sat under a sticky sky,

writing promises

in sun-faded ink. 
 

© Joseph Coelho from Overheard in a Tower Block (Otter-Barry Books)