NaPoWriMo Prompt 15: Today, we’d like to encourage you to take a look at StampsBot twitter.com/StampsBot, and become inspired by the wide, wonderful, and sometimes wacky world of postage stamps. For example, while it certainly makes sense that China would issue a stamp featuring a panda, it’s less clear to us why the Isle of Man should feel the need to honor 2001: A Space Odyssey in stamp form. From Romanian mushrooms to Sudanese weavers to the Marshall Islands getting far too excited over personal computing, stamps are a quasi-lyrical, quasi-bizarre look into what different cultures (or at least their postal authorities) hold dear.
There’s a bunny that visits our backyard: brown with big eyes, hunching over munching clover without blinking as we watch from the window like we’re at the zoo. Rabbits weren’t even in our world until the pandemic. Stretching fingers of development pushed colonies of rabbits into our neighborhood. My two youngest (too young to understand the darkness that covid cast over the sun) made a sign with their dad and hung it outside proclaiming “Bunnies Welcome!” Bunnies became the stars of our backyard, where we spent so much time in those first lonely months. They hunched in the grass: black eyes unblinking brown paws barely touching the shattering earth.
Beautiful! “Hunching over munching clover” A+++ rhymes!
“The shattering earth” contrasted with the image of the bunnies is captivating.