I Strike Without Warning

Golden Comanche Mardi Mardi Gras Indians on Bayou St. John here in my neighborhood in New Orleans. Saturday May 26th.

Video by my neighbor Joanne.

Postcard 10: Postmark June 23rd 1939, Chicago Ill

ClarencE buckingham Memorial Fountain, Chicago

.

Dear Sarah,

I've just been shot!!

In Chicago!! Oooooo (I hope

it looks all right. ha).

.

Ah Sarah- seriously

speaking- I am just having

a wonderful time. Praise

the Lord! There are so many

earnest Christian students,

teachers, and workers around

here- I hate to think of coming home in two weeks

I may stay four even yet. We went to the lake last night. May

God bless you and keep you in his service. Wilma.

Photo: To: The Bat Krewe / From: Batman

To The

.........Bat Krewe,

.......................your

...............................Pal!

...................................Batman

Photo: Marching Soldiers

See also Postcard 2

Postcard 9: Unposted, Early 20th Century

Salmon Glacier, Source of Salmon River

Postcard 8: Postmark Eastport ME July 1905

100 km

I thought you
would rather
have a pretty
one. But I am
sending you a
funny one this
time. Have something
to tell you when
I get home. M.M.

Sermon: 1 Peter 1:24

that all flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower
of the field... surely the people is grass... now get you up
to a high mountain...

.......This, This is the
.............Cry we are
..................the cry

.............For God must
..................be dreaming Again

..................Orphan Tommy &
..................the widowed Ms. Jones
...................are in the sanctuary

..............This must be a dream
...................Yes dream Amen

...................Now Feast!
................my children Feast!
.....................Amen

Postcard 7: Postmark March 16th 1906, Bangore ME

Maxwell
.....................Good morning
......................................
......................................Mother

Photo: A Madsen Print Aug 26 1932 Chicago

Yosemite

.....................65

Postcard 6: Postmark Aug 25th 1933, Chicago, Ill (Century of Progress World's Fair Chicago)

Electrical Building At Night

Dear Sara

Well here I am at

the World's Fair. We came

in today. It was around

5:30 when we got here.

We went out to the Fair

around 7:30. It sure is

wonderful. I came with

my cousin and wife

...........................Lillian

Postcard 5: Unposted, Late 20th Century

Siesta Motel

20 Modern Units, Free Transportation To and From

Hospitals. T.V., Phones, Ice, Air Conditioning.

Postcard 4: Postmark July 12th 1906, West Pembroke, ME

Why don't you
....ask Papa!
..Better ask him
before it is too late,
West Pembroke,
.......................ME
....July 11, 1906

Postcard 3: Unposted (Lonely Scene)

Photo: Ashland Realty

ASHLAND REALTY CO.

We Provide

Good Album

A Good Print Deserves a Place in a
................Good Album
...The FREDRICK & NELSON Kodak
Section maintains at all seasons a compre-
hensive assortment of Loose-Leaf Kodak
Album............lly bound in leather and
fab........................ththe following standard
s
...................................0.....10x12....11x14

Postcard 2: Postmark May 31st, 1906, Wakefield R.I.

My Country 'Tis of Thee

This is where
I spent
Memorial Day
Wakefield R.I.
May 31, 06
Julia

Postcard 1: Postmark Feb. 25 1906 Machias, ME

We are all right

.......Lovingly

.............Mother

Hello

My name is Michael Ford. I live in New Orleans. My first full length book of poems, Carbon, was published in August 2006 by Ugly Duckling Presse.

I intend to use this blog mostly to share the old photos, postcards, notes and so forth that I've collected over the years. These things contain if not poetry itself (and some of them do, I think) at least the germ of poetry.