DON QUIXOTE’S QUANDARY

DON QUIXOTE’S QUANDARY, by Colleen Anderson:

He had studied flags, kites and pinwheels
knowing them for the harmless fry of monsters
they would soon become his duty
for all his tilting at windmills
everything looked skewed

An enemy of state
of mind he sought the source
of untamed, wanton might
not just to cage a beating heart but to fire
engines whether of giants or turning, wooden sails

They bided their time or wasted his
aware they could outlast his futile forays
into imagination flickering like a candle’s flame
fanned not to burning novas but guttering
in the breeze, thoughts bending this way and that

Unwilling to give a hint of their endless energy
the windmills creaked unceasing, deep
belly laughing millstones about his neck
he’d hung his hopes and dreams on discovering
something as mighty and invisible as a breath of wind
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Colleen Anderson’s fiction and poetry have appeared in over 100 publications with recent work in Deep Cuts, Demonologia Biblica and Bibliotheca Fantastica. She is a twice Aurora Award finalist and has just finished co-editing the Tesseracts 17 anthology, which will be out in Oct. from Edge Publications.

A Compendium of Witches (poems about Canadian witches) is in the works, as well as several stories and the ubiquitous fantasy novel. Other pieces by Colleen will be coming out in Bull Spec, Cemetery Dance, Chilling Tales 2, Polu Texni and others. A collection of her fiction, Embers Amongst the Fallen, is available through Amazon and Smashwords.

www.colleenanderson.wordpress.com

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