Your post card was received yesterday
Stir, stop. was written on the back.
Nothing else followed but the post mark.
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
I tapped the edge and wondered why?
On the front was an old picture of two people
portaging at Spring Lake.

Was the picture on the front suppose to be us?
Am I supposed to remember something?
I am many miles away from those days.
I no longer carry around that cumbersome canoe.
And the paddles we lost so many years ago,
we could never find.

Tomorrow, I’ll return that post card
a fresh stamp attached.
Let go, is all I will write.
Maybe you’ll forget our past?

Author Michael Plante
Image: Post Card Portage at Spring Lake, Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan -19 (circa 1915) used without permission.