I'm out of the Station
out of the shuttle
perched on this moving
crumbling Mimoid
in its shimmering ocean
disintegrating
like an ancient city in ruins
like a Pompeii in lava.
Suddenly there's Snow's voice
in my brain, she's gone Kelvin
she's gone, she was just a projection.
The ocean laps at my booted feet
as if to anoint them
as porous stalagmites slide underward.
It's in my blood, but not my blood
our crystals are alien, i hear
Snow's voice again, like an echo
she was just a projection
& you, Snow, what are you, i yell
as the stalactites fall to dust – 'Snow!'
* Solaris Stanislaw Lem
Robin Ouzman Hislop, born UK, a reader in philosophy & religions, has travelled extensively throughout his lifetime but now lives in semi- retirement as a TEFL teacher and translator in Spain & the UK.
Robin was editor of the 12 year running on-line monthly poetry journal Poetry Life and Times. In 2013 he joined with Dave Jackson as co-editor at Artvilla.com, where he presently edits Poetry Life & Times, Artvilla.com, Motherbird.com.
He’s been previously published in a variety of international magazines, later publications including Voices without Borders Volume 1 (USA), Cold Mountain Review (Appalachian University, N. Carolina), The Poetic Bond Volumes (thepoeticbond.com) and Phoenix Rising from the Ashes (a recently published international Anthology of Sonnets). His most last publication is a volume of collected poems All the Babble of the Souk available at all main online tributaries
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