Seasontide

[lnhammer]

If one December someone on the Moon,
Perhaps a child, about to go back in
Seeing the surface washed with blue earthlight,
Looked up and then reached out to catch the Earth

Before remembering -- wouldn't she think
Here's heaven's ornament and, better than
A alien tree or row of candlelights,
A fitting emblem for the season there?

—31 December 1996

Used on our holiday card for 1997. I like to say that I've written exactly two actual science fiction stories; "Her First Affair" is one, and this is the other.

---L.

Comments

[ex_asakiyume313]

This is a beautiful poem; makes me want to draw a picture. And yay, link to a story.

(clicks link)

Heeey... that's not a story, that's another poem! Fine, I'll put on my poem-reading brain.

[lnhammer]

It's a story -- with line breaks.

For the holiday card, we use the photo of the earth rising over the moon from one of the Apollo missions.

---L.