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To all our lovely customers who have shown us a huge amount of love, the people who ordered, have sent gifts, and have received gift codes, thank you for your continued support!
We regret to inform you that our website is going through some server and hosting issues and therefore we are currently not handling payments or redemption. This may have happened due to the large volume of visitors to the site following this feature by the Webbys about us!
As a start up of two grad school students, we don’t always have the resources we might require, rest assured we are working quickly to upgrade to a better service provider to ensure that this never happens again, and we will let you know as soon as we are back up and running!
Thank you for your patience!
Here’s a poem while you wait:



Wait

Wait, for now.
Distrust everything, if you have to.
But trust the hours. Haven’t they
carried you everywhere, up to now? 
Personal events will become interesting again.
Hair will become interesting.
Pain will become interesting.
Buds that open out of season will become lovely again.
Second-hand gloves will become lovely again,
their memories are what give them
the need for other hands. And the desolation
of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness
carved out of such tiny beings as we are
asks to be filled; the need
for the new love is faithfulness to the old.
Wait.
Don’t go too early.
You’re tired. But everyone’s tired.
But no one is tired enough.
Only wait a while and listen.
Music of hair,
Music of pain,
music of looms weaving all our loves again.
Be there to hear it, it will be the only time,
most of all to hear,
the flute of your whole existence,
rehearsed by the sorrows, play itself into total exhaustion. 

~ Galway Kinnell

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Postcard Poets is a new way to discover poetry from new and established poets to readers across the world. Selected by our curators, the poetry takes the medium of postcards and is delivered to you by post.

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