COVER N. 597 - FRANCE

Postmark: 58 - Corbigny - Nièvre 11.06.2025

Posted on the 11th June; Received on the 18th June 2025

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Another reminder that Freedom is only a right, not an axiom! 

Un grand Merci, Jean-Pierre, non seulement pour le pli, mais aussi pour tout ce qu'il y était dedans.

As a side but very happy note, this is the 100th cover I have received from my French friends since I began this blog. Je vous remercie énormément!

Thin as air, and yet

pregnant of thought

his gaze crossed 

the infamous pentagram.

Line by line of barbed wire,

rusty, infectious, infamous,

and yet his gaze crossed it

as if transparent, obnoxiously immaterial.

Same as the single wild flower

erupting at the base of the pole, 

for  spring always bloomed

 on both sides of the fence.

Celebrating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Fields of Death, les Camps de Mort, La Poste issued on 25APR2025 the stamp on the cover, illustrated with a self-explanatory image of a fence and the legend "1945 Libération des Camps 2025".

Lest we forget...