She came to see me
resplendent in red
glittering with dust
her elegant bone structure evident more than ever
desiccated and dead
spacesuit blown
floating past the view screen
when I know we retrieved her from orbit yesterday
Copyright © 2017 Kim Whysall-Hammond
“She came to see me” was first published in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Associations print journal Star*Line 40.4:
http://www.sfpoetry.com/sl/issues/starline40.4.html
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