Mary Choo's poems and short stories have appeared in genre and mainstream magazines and anthologies throughout Canada and the U.S. Her work has won or placed in a variety of competitions, and her short story "Wolfrunner" reached the preliminary ballot of the Nebula Awards and the final ballot of the Canadian Aurora Awards.
Her credits include such publications as the Methuen
children's anthology The Window of Dreams, Star*Line, Dreams and
Nightmares, Sword and Sorceress On Spec and Northern Frights. She
is currently completing her Moon Wars trilogy, which is set in
the same created fantasy world as "Wolfrunner", as well as
writing short fiction and several collections of poetry.
You are
where there is no morning,
where long winds clot your withered throat,
and the hours are consumed
by the spider's dream.
In these high crypts
held brittle as forbidden trees,
where bones sift and fall
into distant white song
to call you is nothing,
a fire that turns in stone.
Through the garlands of grief
I heap along your tomb,
among their lingering fragrance,
behind the terrible walls, I know
the slow deliberate creep of the worm.
It is in memory's web,
where days seep blind
and chill as silver trumpets,
that you are folded in sunlight and silk,
your mouth filled with stars;
Yet here, deep
beneath your mantle of linen,
your hands that hold my severed roses,
veined cold as my heart,
revere silence
and only the thorns.
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