Sunlight is simplest,
one star overruling the rest.
Between dusk and dawn,
customary methods serve:
fire, fog, fumes, full moon
to flood the river of stars.
Or stay within city limits,
shielded by electric glare.
Avoid wilderness, desert,
the star-strewn ocean.
If all else fails, look down.
Heed not his siren call.
Mary Soon Lee was born and raised in London, but has lived in Pittsburgh for thirty years. She is a Grand Master of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, and three-time winner of both the AnLab Readers' Award and the Rhysling Award. The first print edition of her epic-fantasy-told-in-poems, The Sign of the Dragon, was published in January 2025. She hides her online presence with a cryptically named website (marysoonlee.com) and an equally cryptic BlueSky account (@marysoonlee.bsky.social).
