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Mistress of the Black Between -
First Place (short form), 2008 Poetry Contest

Gail Sosinsky Wickman
Poetry
Science Fiction

I sit upon

a thousand years of power
cells, encased in titaplasmic
walls withstanding eons
of solar winds and cosmic storms,
sealed in with measured
oxygen, provided
with nourishment
and illusions
to give it taste,
tombed by the click and clack
of hermetic lock, melted
to slag in the tumbler case,
buoyed about by screams of warning
in the cold, cold black
between the spiral arms.

I sit alone

watching the recycler claim
my tears, attempting to break
far enough into the pulsing guts
to drive my mausoleum
home or blow my atoms to the stars,
when sometimes

I hear a path-strayed human

lost ship whisper
in my mind.
Bright shining candle—

I reach my mental touch

and snuff it out.


                                               


 

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Copyright 2008, Gail Sosinsky Wickman. All rights reserved.

A recent transplant to Pennsylvania, Gail Sosinsky Wickman teaches at Penn State-Beaver.  Her work has appeared in such diverse places as America West Airlines Magazine, Great Mystery and Suspense Magazine, Sword and Sorceress XVI and Appalling Limericks.  

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