Termination Shock
by Ann K. Schwader and Deborah P. Kolodji
stalled
sirocco
of the mother star
new voices
earphone static
a planet's garbled farewell
distant surf
fades from the clutched shell
black sands
bow shock
of a thousand goodbyes
crashing waves
a bottle's message
for the undertow
the call
of space sirens
wormhole
Copyright © 2007, Ann K. Schwader and Deborah P. Kolodji
Image Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Ann K. Schwader's new Lovecraftian /SF sonnet sequence, In the Yaddith Time, is forthcoming from Mythos Books. Her poetry has appeared in Tales of the Unanticipated, Mythic Delirium, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Strange Horizons, Modern Haiku, The Formalist, and elsewhere. She lives and writes in Westminster, CO. Visit her web site at: www.geocities.com/HPL4ever/.
Deborah P. Kolodji is the divorced mother of three who works in information technology to fund her poetry obsessions. She is the president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association and a member of the Haiku Society of America. Her work has appeared in numerous places both on and off the web. She is the editor and co-founder of Amaze: The Cinquain Journal.