by Mary E. Lowd
A crescent of sea in the sky
A glittering span of sand
Towers reach
Into the breach Continue reading “Shell Beach”
An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
by Mary E. Lowd
A crescent of sea in the sky
A glittering span of sand
Towers reach
Into the breach Continue reading “Shell Beach”
by Mary E. Lowd
The fabric of her spacesuit
Has to be
So very fine, so very thin Continue reading “Beyond Blue Ceilings”
by Mary E. Lowd
She’ll live forever
Just to spite
The pretenders
To her throne Continue reading “The Ancient Cat Queen”
by Mary E. Lowd
When snow comes for the sun
Cooling the warm heart in our sky
Every sparkling flake
As it falls
Waits to be undone Continue reading “Snow on the Sun”
by Mary E. Lowd
As ephemeral as a bubble
As temporally sudden—
A blip, a slip, a city Continue reading “City on the Sun”
by Mary E. Lowd
Cool, pale, sunlight-yellow
A cheerful veneer
Hiding the anger Continue reading “The Windswept Rose”
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”
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”