December

Issue 39

On the Crest of Victoria Crater -
Honorable Mention, 2006 Poetry Contest

Deborah P Kolodji

Poetry
Science Fiction

One of the roving machines
sent by the earthlings
waits by ancient banks
of dried up lakes.

The Martian children
want to play with it.

Mothers want it destroyed.
All the fathers are taking bets
whether this robot can reveal
what we did with all the water.

                                          

Copyright 2006, Deborah P Kolodji. All rights reserved.


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