Barrowman, Chalmers Melissa. “Mail Your Parcels Early.” Creative Young Canada: Collection of Verse, Drawings and Musical Compositions by Young Canadians from Seven to Twenty Years of Age. Ed. Aletta E. Marty. Toronto: Dent, 1928. 78-79.
“Mail Your Parcels Early,” by Chalmers Melissa Barrowman (aged 9)
14 Saturday Dec 2013
Posted in Poetry
Sweet and timely, given that the postman is vanishing from our streetscape.
Too true… it breaks my heart (and where do they think they are going to PUT them. in the crowded urban areas?)We have a special relationship with our postman, who raises the little “rural route” flag on our box for us when there is mail… he used to have a rural route and said he finds it warmingly nostalgic…