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The Banshee of Brooklyn

Karen A. Romanko
Poetry
Fantasy

Her cries came to me
from across the bridge—
Roebling's bright jewel
in a setting of stars

I couldn't see her eyes
or her spider-spun garments
or her silver hair flowing
but I'd heard her keen before

A black hearse drove by me
as I sat on the fire escape
The city sirens joined her
in a chorus of lament

By the dawn's early light
her wails had subsided,
replaced by the telephone's
song of dark news
                                        


 

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Copyright 2008, Karen A. Romanko. All rights reserved.

Karen A. Romanko has seen over 100 of her poems and short stories published in venues such as Strange Horizons, Ideomancer, Lone Star Stories, The Pedestal Magazine, and Full Unit Hookup. She also edits and publishes the speculative fiction and mystery e-zine Raven Electrick and recently released the 42-author flash fiction and poetry anthology Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic.

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