This postcard by Jean Morris seemed like the perfect note to end the year on. She writes,

A year ago, on one of the first days of flinching cold such as we’re having now [Nov. 25], I photographed the cellist in the underpass, and posted this photo and haiku on my blog. The Postal Poem format adds something, I think, placing the words close to the source of the music, where they draw the eye as the cello drew my ear.

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Jean Morris created this postcard with a photo she took in central London, looking north across the Thames between Waterloo and Westminster Bridges. The title, “Scape,” was inspired by Indian anthropologist Arjun Appadurai’s five dimensions of global cultural flow, which he called scapes : ethnoscapes, mediascapes, technoscapes, financescapes and ideoscapes.