that poem Sonya wrote about Ny in 2022

[ride_4ever]

Most of you -- or perhaps all of you -- will understand why I am currently fixated on the last three lines of the Sonya Taaffe poem "The House Snakes: For Nyani Martin":

...our earth will always shake,

our restless scales unfurling to enfold

your arms of wine-dark honey as you come home.


The full poem appears in issue 44 of "Uncanny: A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy".

Comments

[dine]

oh wow - yes, that's amazing and so so her

[ride_4ever]

...and I can't read the words "as you come home" without crying....

[princessofgeeks]

HUGS

[ride_4ever]

TYK. *more hugs*

[seleneheart]

The post from Goss is locked, but I was friends with minoanmiss - loved her lively drawings. What happened?

[devilc]

She had a sudden heart attack, and by the time the EMTs came, she had been without a pulse for some time. She never regained consciousness, and was declared brain-dead after a day on life support.

[seleneheart]

That's terrible! I will miss her. Thank you for letting me know.

[cmcmck]

I see what you mean!

[ride_4ever]

*nods sadly*

[cyan_blue]

Just heard today - I am so very sorry to learn of her passing.

[ride_4ever]

So very sad.

[adafrog]

Good.

[mrs_d]

Thank you for sharing the link to the poem. Gonna hang on to this.

[ride_4ever]

Every reading of this poem makes me teary-eyed again.

[mrs_d]

same...