Postcards I'll Never Send

To my harshest critic

Drawing defiance from the Three Sisters of Glencoe. March 2025. Photo credit: @shuanghan

Hello friend,

One of the writing prompts I got from attending Pádraig Ó Tuama’s poetry retreat was to write a series of postcards I’ll never send. I chose to write to my inner critic, because it seems unfair that only they get to speak to me - it’s at times very clear to me what they think of me - and I don’t get to give voice to my feelings about them.

Who would you write to, if you didn’t have to worry about hearing back?

Here are my postcards. I share them with you instead.