A multi-published poem....

Two covers, two publications, just one poem, “February 4th, Farmer’s Almanac Entry"…..which also won the Burnaby Writers’ Society Millenium poetry contest in 2000. Oh I love getting a lot of mileage out of one piece of work! Mythic Delirium bought the poem (and put my name on the cover, a first for me); then it was nominated for the Rhysling Award for best SF,Fantasy & Horror Poetry of 2001. It remained a runner-up, but was published along with the other nominated works in this little anthology produced by the SF Poetry Association.

here it is:

February 4th, Farmer’s Almanac Entry

An auspicious day for marriage, they say,

and for the repair of ships.

Some smiling conjunction of stars, I suppose,

occasions this pronouncement.

Yesterday is set as a fossil,

a fractured dinosaur bone encased

in a smoky acrylic block.

We fondle it, turn and observe from all angles

then set it back on the coffee table

unchanged.

Tomorrow is only the blueprint of air,

whose molecules stir and dissipate,

or metamorphose as we crack the door

—like Schrodinger’s cat, neither dead nor alive

without our observation.

Today is the day for the fusion of lives.

Today is the day for re-sealing hulls

against the elements.