Breath & Shadow
2005 - Vol. 2, Issue 7
Two Poems
written by
Robin Mayhall
"Cassini Looks at Saturn"
Ancient Phoebe,
Backward–rolling moon,
Are Saturn's other satellites
Your restless orphans?
When it roams your icy craters,
Will Cassini kiss and tell?
"Contentment"
The day
Pleasant and dry
Me
On the beach
White sand blue sky blue
Water
You
Brown as the sandpiper
Dark as
A weathered house, a wooden pier
Us
Lying still as the clouds hang
In the mirrored sky
Absorbing
The sun like sand dollars
Robin Mayhall is a corporate communications writer by day who writes speculative fiction and poetry in her spare time. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Scifaikuest, and Reflection's Edge. Her poem "Mother of Atlantis" is nominated for a 2005 Rhysling Award. Robin has lived with rheumatoid arthritis since 1991 and maintains a website at http://www.hieran.com/knee/ with information on total knee and hip replacement. You can e–mail her at robin@hieran.com.