Assembling Titan

Poetry

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Assembling Titan

Deborah P. Kolodji

Issue: 7 February 2005

puzzle pieces

fitted together

without a box lid

unmatched edges

of data removed

until the next turn

images flicker

in streaming media

consciousness

a Halloween cat

looks up briefly

from the surface

the lake

on the latest maps

just a plain on the next

behind the veil

geology wiggles

out of focus

orange lure

for the infant

astronomer

About Deborah P. Kolodji

Deborah P. Kolodji is the president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association and a member of the Haiku Society of America. Her poetry has appeared in Strange Horizons, Star*Line, Dreams and Nightmares, Illumen, Scifaikuest, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Simply Haiku, and many other places. She has also published four chapbooks of poetry. You can see more of Deborah's work on her website, or you can contact her at dkolodji@aol.com.

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