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The Pedestal Magazine > Archives > ISSUE THIRTY-ONE: Dec (05)-Feb (06) > Poetry >Bruce Boston & Marge Simon - Lilith Revisited

  
She came in the back way because no matter how the temples fell, there was always a back way to the next universe.

She locked the door and climbed the stairs. The wood was rickety, and it was dark with only one sun to light the whole damn place, most of it pointed in the wrong direction.

Granted it was a big sun, yellow as an orange, and it kept things hot enough.

She could hear life erupting downstairs, hammer and tackle, the slamming of doors, screeches and curses, sheet lightning and the slaughter of hens.

She ran the length of the dusty hall in the racket to find the room that waited.

There was no light inside, and noise was constant, though everything seemed in its place.

She found the severed dreams on her pillow, the knife on the nightstand, a bowl of clean water and a cloth to wash the stains from her hands.

In every universe, there was a history that wanted her name.









Bruce Boston's writing has received a record seven Rhysling Awards, a record five Asimov's Readers' Choice Awards, the Bram Stoker Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the Grand Master Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. He is the author of forty books and chapbooks, including the forthcoming fiction collection Flashing the Dark (Sam's Dot, 2006). For more information, visit his website (http://hometown.aol.com/bruboston).

Marge Simon freelances as a writer-poet-illustrator for genre and mainstream publications such as Nebula Awards 32, Strange Horizons, Flashquake, Space & Time, Dreams & Nightmares, and Tales of the Unanticipated. She has illustrated three Stoker award collections. Her illustrated poetry collection, Artist of Antithesis, was a Bram Stoker Award finalist in 2004. Marge is former president of the Small Press Writers/Artists Organization and the Science Fiction Poetry Association. She currently serves as editor of Star*Line. For more information, visit her website: http://hometown.aol.com/margsimon.

Bruce and Marge were married in 2001 and live in Ocala, Florida.
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