Every Year the Raven Falls In Love
By Marge Simon

Because she's beautiful
he falls in love with her,
hair dark as the blood on his feathers --
a mute reminder of his ways,
she sings his name and they
are as one, and one alike.

Because she's beautiful
in her righteousness,
human and not, poised
like flames on wind, to fly.

Marge Simon is a past president of the SFPA and serves as editor of Star*Line. A former Rhysling winner, she won the Stoker for Superior achievement in poetry, 2008 and the Strange Horizons Readers Award, 2010. Marge and her husband, Bruce Boston, live in Ocala, Florida.