Fall From Grace
by Margaret Fieland
Fall From Grace
Devil in black and white
smiles down
on tan teak curves
of dining room table:
spoonfuls of clear cerise
Consomme Madrilene,
garlicky bites of lamb
garnished with mint jelly,
lemon-cloud mouthfuls
of Mom’s chiffon pie,
while Satan seduces Eve
with a pale outline of apple
Margaret Fieland has lived in the Boston area since 1978. She is an avid science fiction fan, and selected Robert A. Heinlein’s “Farmer in the Sky” for her tenth birthday, now long past. In spite of earning her living as a computer software engineer, she turned to one of her sons to put up the first version of her website, a clear indication of the computer generation gap. Thanks to her father’s relentless hounding, she can still recite the rules for pronoun agreement in both English and French. She can also write backwards and wiggle her ears. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Melusine, Front Range Review, and All Rights Reserved. She is the author of four science fiction novels and a collection of science fiction persona poems.
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