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LAST RIGHTS
By Kendall Evans
Wrap me up in a big bright white sheet
As we sail the far reach
To peninsular extensions of the galaxy
Throw my unknowing corpse overboard
Toss me past the stern bannisters
Into the wake of our fierce fusion flames
Tempest-tossed, my sacred remains
Disintegrating into interstellar dust
Let me drift forever in the deep-space void
Watching sparkling comets spin past
Dreaming dreams of cosmic alternatives
And coronal mass ejections, oblivious
& Eternal
Kendall Evans, trollbridg@hotmail.com, wrote BP #58’s “Chupacabra, Chupacabra”
(+BP #54’s “The
Coronation of the New Gods” play excerpt, the VISHNU play excerpt for BP #53,
and the poems: “Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll,” “Other Selves,” “In Shadows Drenched
,” “The Darkness,” “The Teeth of the Rose,” “Blood in the Mist,” and “If I
Bring You Crimson Flowers” for BP earlier). A frequent BP contributor, he has
had more than 200 poems in such publications as Asimov’s, Bare Bone
Anthology, Dreams and Nightmares, Fantastic, Flesh and Blood,
Illumen, Mythic Delirium, Space and Time, and Weird
Tales. His chapbooks include Poetry Red-Shifted in the Eyes of a Dragon
and (with David Kopaska-Merkel) Separate Destinations. Among his many
other prizes, he and David won the 2006 best long science fiction poem Rhysling
Award with “The Tin Men.” “In The Astronaut Asylum” by Kendall Evans and
Samantha Henderson won the 2010 Rhysling Award for the best long science
fiction poem of the year. The poem first appeared in Mythic Delirium.
The titles of his four dramas in The Ganymede Ring Cycle include: “The
Mermaidens of Ceres,” “Battle Dance of the Valkyrie,” “Sieglinda’s Journey
to the Stars,” and “The Rings of Ganymede.”
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