Science Fiction Review 41
- SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW 41 - A black ink and black color pencil drawing on an 11 x 14 size coquille board. It appears on the cover of SFR 41, edited and published by Richard Geis.
This issue was due for publication around Halloween so I decided to do a drawing appropriate for the time.
While I was doing this drawing thoughts came into my mind that I decided to write down. So every now and then I stopped drawing to jot down some of those thoughts. When I was finished with the drawing I turned those notes into a poem and sent it along to the editor with the drawing.
He didn't use the poem and he didn't tell me why not. I have to assume it isn't very good.
I know almost nothing about the "rules" of writing poetry, it seems to be as chaotic an art form as is the world of painting; some of it is based on accepted principles developed by poets over centuries, resulting in narrative works clearly understood. Other poets have purposely abandoned all the rules. "Narrative" verse is especially shunned, and "understandability" has given way to what are often incomprehensible word-images. Anyway, here is the Halloween poem I sent to the editor;
The night is full of black shadows
The moon a pale eye above,
A ghostly figure prowls the night
Searching for his love.
She remembers what he said to her
"At All Soul's Eve we'll meet,
Come to me at midnight
And make the dark hours sweet."
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