Commemorative
Cinquains
Goodbye, Nurse
Chapel
for Majel
Barrett Roddenberry (1932-2008)
Boldly
life goes and stars
fade into the dark void...
I hear a computer, it has
her voice.
Final
Rendezvous
For Arthur C.
Clarke (1917-2008)
Rama,
named for a god
your cylindrical sea
beckons...old childhood dreams, a death
today.
(first published in New Verse News)
The Brave
Little Toaster Witnesses the End
for Thomas M.
Disch (1940-2008)
Household
appliances
see it all…kisses, fights,
laughter, despair, suicide…our
sorrow.
