The Tall Walkers
By Marge Simon, illustration by Marge Simon
16 August 2004
Thin & long
as moonlit shadows
you discover
them at the brink
of a sad dream
when a scythe
of morning sunlight
pushes them away
they're still there
moving back & forth
on the smooth shaded wall
where only you
see their forms
you know you can
make them jump
if you want
with practice
you can have them
do more
pull something
from the room to
where they are
a box of tissues? yes!
a night stand? yes!
what next?
Copyright © 2004 Marge Simon
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Marge Ballif Simon free lances as a writer-poet-illustrator for genre and mainstream publications such as Nebula Awards 32, Strange Horizons, Flashquake, Space & Time, Dreams & Nightmares, Aoife's Kiss, Dark Regions, Fantasy Magazine, The Pedestal Magazine, EOTU, Tales of the Unanticipated. She has illustrated
three Stoker award collections. Her illustrated poetry collection, "Artist of Antithesis" was a Stoker finalist in 2004.
Marge is former president of the Small Press Writers/Artists Organization and the Science Fiction Poetry Association and now serves as editor of Star*Line. For more about her work, visit her website at http://hometown.aol.com/margsimon, or send her email at MSimon6206@aol.com.
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