Words from Project 2: A Science Fiction Garland Cinquain
With the move over (bar the unpacking), I'm trying a new work routine (of *course*, I am...), so, if you're wondering what I'm up to, here's one of the verses written for Project 2 (not on the board below). Flight to Freedom Happy the bird did fly, its form concealed by flesh and skin, its feathers well-hid from those who’d harm who’d pluck it clean and cage the little that was left, who’d hang it out for all to see a prize displayed a prisoner. This was the fate it fled in shifted form, with human face aboard a ship to outer space from inner worlds not safe to colonies not yet well known to folk who fled and hid and hoped for better lives they built on worlds yet free from man’s worst tropes distilled (Copyright: C.M. Simpson December 2021)