(See part 1: https://racinewir.com/2026/04/03/postcard-poetry-part-1/
and part 2: https://racinewir.com/2026/04/10/postcard-poetry-part-2/ )

Here is the last of the postcard poetry!

art by Dan Nielsen

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For Pharoah, for Anselm Berrigan

Softly Sanders, the full
body experience

Reach an often said
confession for sanity

Ex-derision fete for what?

The sloth light only
piercing perceived on
Chilean chauffeur
bedsides for freshness sake.

3/6/26

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For Lee Ann Brown

I’m partial to the peacock,
an excellent question for
the grey haired embroidery emporium.

Which gold lace is right
for ways a rondo approaches
an edible arrangement.

And compliments blowing the
aria wide open, trapse
out of business in an
unchanging position.

3/5/26

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For Lourdes Figueroa

Trading up straight for
candy strings is all
about prowling.

Do you think turbans
are somehow selected
through trial and error

And not the tried and
true government
of duck-duck-goose?

3/5/26

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For Nicolas Wesely

Siren for fools believing
here reflected a darkness
is nothing between us

The way the cat watches is
classic arrival for screams
over right and wrong

Brick road for boxing gloves
so taken with wanting

It’s all in the approach
fourteen names for all time

3/5/26

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For Sam Lohmann

Altogether true for
typeset synovial
Is the last sort of wall
we hastily construct

When each and every binary
Solution is counter to
the problem at hand

3/5/26

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For Emily Wallis-Hughes

Ruffled for foreign fire
string parade

Juggling the lip of
sparkled stacks and
tremolo

Fingers raised in augmentation
supplied for repetitious
parting

What sort of buffalo is
together for the Szechuan
embroidery season?

3/5/26

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For K. Lorraine Graham

Festival forensics burning
taste repairs

Lamb chop parade for
fires and for weeks

Very singable lists of
quarts of family photos
rates low on the ledger

And such is the way we fly.

3/5/26

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This wraps up my 3 posts compiling the postcards I wrote between late December and March. It has been a very poetic weekend! Chelsea Tadeyeske (Milwaukee) & Edie Roberts (Detroit) who co-run Pitymilk Press held a reading in Racine at Vintage & Modern Books Saturday evening along with Kelsey Marie Harris & Nick Demske to kick off Pitymilk’s book tour over the next couple weeks!

Then tonight there was a reading in Milwaukee at Sugar Maple featuring our state poet laureate, Brenda Cárdenas who is *amazing* along with her husband, Robert Harris who is another of the best poets in Wisconsin, and lastly from Chicago, Peter O’Learey. All three sets were top notch, as expected!

Now that the postcards have all been published over the past few weeks, I am going to post some other things I’ve been writing recently. In the meantime, the submissions for my project have started to come in, and I’ll be starting to get all of those prepared to share toward the end of my tenure.

Lastly, in other news, one of my poems was selected again this year for the Bus Poems project Nicholas Ravnikar coordinates along with an anthology and an open mic

I hope everyone has a wonderful week!

Jay Mollerskov
ArtRoot Writer-in-Residence, 4/20/26