Poems

I said to her, by Evan Simeone
       I said to her,

"The force field below your deck prevents my
clearance level altogether. Flick
the toggle, bump me up to Level 3.
Trust me just enough to let me unlock

the outside hatch. You crouched within
a sensor pod to track me climbing up
the access shaft but what you failed to scan
were moonscapes passing just beyond the ship.

Out there, on the cratered blue expanse the stars
and black, black night reveal a silent truth
you somehow won't admit. That out beyond

the outer hull, among the meteors
a loneliness awaits us at our death."
She dropped her force field and took my open hand.