— postcard · the lighthouse

posted · from the keeper's small desk

greetings · the lighthouse

dearest —
three hundred and one steps to the lamp.
the light turns once every twelve seconds.
i have begun to dream in twelves.
the keeper's cat is named after my mother.
this cannot be a coincidence. — k.

LH · 09
40c
CAP IS
—·VIII
to the house
long lane · sometemple

the writer was sent for two nights and stayed for nine. the cat is named, not coincidentally, after a woman who was kind to keepers in another century.

see also · pc · seaside · pc · island · pc · ferry · lighthouse · vigil

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