by Mary E. Lowd

A telepathic invitation beams
Straight into your brain
Straightaway letting you know
It’s time to go Continue reading “The Invitation”
An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
by Mary E. Lowd

A telepathic invitation beams
Straight into your brain
Straightaway letting you know
It’s time to go Continue reading “The Invitation”
Drove two hours today to a little TV station to read a couple of my poems — “Freedom is a Cat” & “The Robot Unicorn Solution” — for the release of a book I made the cover art for!
I’d never seen a green screen in person before, let alone been filmed in front of one. Pretty cool!
by Mary E. Lowd
Originally published in Paw Prints Beyond the Moon, July 2024

Warm air, sun-dappled pink tea roses, and the drowsy hum of bees melted away the cold from outer space that chilled the Time Tortoise. He had hidden inside his shell, wrapped in his silken robe, and watched the spiral galaxy, Galapagofrey, twist and crush down into a pinpoint black hole. Supermassive. His home galaxy was gone.
He needed something new. Continue reading “Chrysalis Can Wait”
by Mary E. Lowd

Feet frozen from the ice cold water
So numb, I can’t feel the sand
The sun keeps dropping lower
This is where I’ve chosen to stand Continue reading “Standing at the Edge of Forever”
by Mary E. Lowd

Lacy wavelets chase
Away from a diminishing horizon Continue reading “The Endless Sea”
by Mary E. Lowd

Scuttling, scurrying
Tentacles wrangling
Rainbow shell glistening Continue reading “Tiny Rainbow Kraken”
by Mary E. Lowd

Roaring with the waves
Rising from the deep
Chasing what it craves Continue reading “The Seashell Monster”
by Mary E. Lowd

Best of friends, strolling and talking
Sharing their longing, for days gone by Continue reading “The Dragon and the Unicorn”
by Mary E. Lowd

A very happy kite
Waving in the wind
Only truly alive
As long as the air lifts them Continue reading “The Octopus Kite”
by Mary E. Lowd

Broken fragments
Of underwater life
Discarded, crumbling Continue reading “Collecting Seashells”