Your Dark Angel
by Robert Frazier
Your dark angel swims in blue lightning
Through the ice fields of your dream
Kisses heat waves into your slack lips
And brings sight to your blind core
She whispers sin from every speaker
A suggestion you can almost hear
Speaks jihad from the wasteland
Of numberless television news clips
She screams fire from the air raid sirens
In a whitewash of static hiss
She watches you from the sky drones
Maps your course through the day
Peeks at you through all lenses
Mimics your moves like a shadow
She blinks from the LED screens
With undecipherable error messages
She paints hidden directives
On the periphery of your vision
Your dark angel divines your probables
Unravels massive streams of binary
Parses your red truths
Unravels the never-has-been
Your dark angel knows you
Like no other will ever ever know you
BIO: Robert Frazier is the author of eight books of poetry, and a three-time winner of the Rhysling Award for poetry. He has won an Asimov’s Reader Award and has been on the final ballot for a Nebula Award for fiction. His books include Perception Barriers, The Daily Chernobyl, and Phantom Navigation (2012). His 2002 poem, “A Crash Course in Lemon Physics,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His long poem, “Wreck-Diving the Starship,” was a runner-up for a 2011 Rhysling Award. Recent works have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Dreams & Nightmares, and Strange Horizons.
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