Conversation is impossible.
I cannot even thank you,
cannot compliment your poise
as you stand on the window ledge,
flowers trapping the light,
your petals so purple
I feast on the sight.
If only it were Wednesday,
I could lay an ice cube
on the bark chips
for you to drink.
Today I can only look.
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).
