love's question



     will you still love me
     after they've transplanted us
     to titanium

tourist horde chewing neon signs fat and happy aliens wandering Times Square

fresh air

need to take a walk
get a breath of fresher air
now we're in orbit

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Anna Sykora has been an attorney in New York and teacher of English in Germany, where she resides with her patient husband and three cats. To date she has placed hundreds of poems and stories in the small press. Writing is her joy. Her motto is: eat your rejections like pretzels. Anna previously appeared in Chrome Baby 6.