Black Deliverance
By Ann K. Schwader

More than
mere color, this
presence of absence pulls
moon out of night . . . out of chaos
crouching
grim at the rim of our vision,
event's last horizon
held safe at bay
for now.

Ann K. Schwader's most recent collection of dark SF poetry, Wild Hunt of the Stars, was named a Bram Stoker Award finalist this year. A comprehensive collection of her weird verse (edited by S.T. Joshi) is forthcoming from Hippocampus Press. She lives and writes in Westminster, CO. For more about her work, please visit http://home.earthlink.net/~schwader/ or check out her LiveJournal, Yaddith Times: http://ankh_hpl.livejournal.com/