Posted in Geek Poems, tagged books, TV on June 11, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Pages flex, frames advance,
as their characters, bereft,
dance from edge to edge
while time or magic ferries
a reversal, a resurrection.
Death may have been a robbery,
a shock, a hackneyed grab
for sympathy and sales,
but undone it brings
an infinite cacophony of hope,
of second-guessing, of knowing nods
as the protagonists all stand,
heads bowed in rain,
written around an open grave,
their costars better buried than returned,
better ash than bird.
Posted in Geek Poems, tagged Doctor Who, fictional characters, love songs, TV on February 11, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Briefly immortal in the penumbral
hush of a library –
saved there as memory – in a life unreal
but not unforgotten.
Did those virtual moments,
that shelved span with no knowledge of
TARDIS or Time Lord,
soften their eventual erasure?
The walling off of a stellar existence –
companion to the Doctor –
a life pursued not
as rescue or escape,
but premeditated adventure,
planned and packed for?
Your final disembarkation
to fixed time and dimension
may have left you, again,
just a temp,
too loud, too coarse,
but even then, you’re the only one
(since the Doctor came around again)
not to be besotted, the only
one to have been, briefly,
a Time Lord herself, the
only one without the luxury of memory.
