Stella Rosetta
By Yoon Ha Lee
13 March 2006
No poem survives its own
translation. No poet is Delphi
to language future. There remains
no panegyric turn
of phrase.
The minds who read your lines
in times to come
have never heard
the voice of Homo
sapiens. You are writ
with
words
collapsed, distorted, information
clusters at the singularity
edge of
truth.
Copyright © 2006 Yoon Ha Lee
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Yoon Ha Lee's poetry has appeared in Mythic
Delirium, Star*Line, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Abyss and Apex, and Jabberwocky. Her fantasy novelette "Counting the Shapes" has been published in the collection In Lands That Never Were: Tales of Swords and Sorcery from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. She is a section editor at the Internet Review of Science Fiction. She can be reached through her website or through requiescat@cityofveils.com. Her husband is a much-abused astrophysicist.
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