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Poetry
Science Fiction
Sealed in our fast-frozen nuptial chambers, we're
Safe from pale Winter and merry-eyed June:
Yet I and my bright star commander still languish, our
Orbit decaying around a dead moon.
Ten thousand times we streamed gallantly outward,
Cocooned in strong silk, linked by spidery strands—
The spurt of our faith shot us through thinning gases to
Worlds that shone gold like our white wedding bands.
Our honeymoon doubled as her new commission—but
Colonies darkened with mammals' despair
As lights flickered out. The last man on the station
Soon crackled his last, the voice fading—no air.
Spokes in the sky now spin ever more slowly, our
Last seeded colony barren and dry—
Still frozen in dust, the preserved pollen medley
Cracks thin as a whisper, lead paint, her last sigh.
Gone are those Earth days—no sky-blue for babies,
No sun-warmed brown skins, no more chilling white snow.
We're trapped, alabaster—but, statues, we open our
Eyes through the ice: where you go, I will go.
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Copyright 2008, Lyn C. A. Gardner. All rights reserved. With master's degrees in English literature and library science, Lyn C. A. Gardner has served as editor at a private maritime museum and cataloger for a public library. Thus far, the author has had stories, poems, art, and articles published in venues like Abyss & Apex, Challenging Destiny, The Doom of Camelot, Doorways Magazine, Horror Garage, The Leading Edge, Legends of the Pendragon, Mythic Delirium, New Myths, Not One of Us, Star*Line, Strange Horizons, Sybil's Garage, Talebones, and Tales of the Talisman, among others. Two stories and a poem earned honorable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (12th, 13th, and 15th editions). Gardner is a graduate of the 2004 Clarion West Writers Workshop. For more information, visit www.gardnercastle.com.
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