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Polar Mirage

by Denny E. Marshall


Polar winds
Ice like pellet
Guns
Stinging like bees
Eyes can’t open
All the way
Walking to nowhere
Lost and stranded
In the middle
Of a storm
In a vast open desert
Great white dunes
Of ice and snow
Shapes come to life
Out in the cold


© 2017 Denny E. Marshall

Denny E. Marshall has had art, poetry, and fictionpublished. Recent credit include cover art for Bards And Sages Quarterly Jan. 2017 and poetry in Space And Time #126 Winter 2016. His flash fiction story "The Window" published by Sci Phi Journal is on the Tangent Online 2016 Recommended Reading List, a review magazine for short SF & fantasy. See more at www.dennymarshall.com.

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