Two Scifaiku
by Deborah P. Kolodji


 

 

veteran

of the xenophobe wars
tentacle tattoo

~

x-ray eyes

can he see my heart
beating faster?

 

 

About the Author:

Deborah P. Kolodji, a two time Rhysling nominee, is primarily interested in short poetry forms.  A member of the Science Fiction Poetry Association and the Haiku Society of America, her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Star*Line, Dreams and Nightmares, Scifaikuest, The Heron's Nest, Abyss & Apex, and many other places.  Her chapbook by Saki Press, Seaside Moon, is a winner of the Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Chapbook Award.  She is one of seventeen haiku poets selected by Red Moon Press to appear in The New Resonance 4: Emerging Voices in English Language Haiku.


Poems © 2005 Deborah P. Kolodji. Photo © 2005 Eric Marin.