Aalix Roake returns with new work. Aalix has been busy since last featuring in bmp 16 being published in numerous publications, the most recent being Astropoetica, Shot Glass Journal, the Fib Review, Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand (as Dana Bryce), Kokako, Chrysanthemum, New Zealand 2012 Poetry Anthology, Honorable mention in Diogen, Autumn 2912 contest, poem shortlisted in SFPA Dwarf Stars contest, and others. Upcoming in One Hundred Tanka by One Hundred Poets and The World Haiku Association: A Vast Sky.
Brava
Hiding
behind dunes
is a habit
not a choice.
She circumnavigates
everything, jumping
weaving between words
said and unsaid
learned from another
performer, Father perhaps,
she soars safely, she thinks,
held firmly by an almost
invisible wire.
Gravitas
Give it time, you’ll settle in
everyone says.
But when I look out the window
as I wake,
the sight of spiky palms
jars me into feeling alien --
where am I
and where are my fir trees?
Ars Poetica 3
Put your thoughts in print
and have your mind
sprint.
A random thought
whispers into your mind,
find
another and catch it
before it slips away
today.
Always tomorrow and again
to compose a sonnet
lyrically, on it
whatever it is or is not
putting it in print captures thought.
