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Two Tankas

By Karen L. Newman

1

red and blue planets
one large dark purple cocoon
everyone on earth
Martian microbes transforming
pretty butterfly corpses

2


the rings of Saturn
intergalactic ice rink
iridescent glow
perfect skating performance
three gold metals for three necks

 


Karen L. Newman is the author of the poetry collections EEKU (Sam's Dot) and ChemICKals (upcoming from Naked Snake Press). She has over 150 publications in places such as Dreams and Nightmares, Scifaikuest, AlienSkin, Tapestry, and The Shantytown Anomaly. She is an associate editor for Afterburn SF and Appalling Limericks. Please visit her online at http://home.zoomnet.net/~karennew.

© Karen L. Newman



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