Deborah P. Kolodji is a widely-published poet who lives in Pasadena, California. This poem first appeared in Silver Wolf #4 in 1995. Dark Planet is designed and edited by Lucy A. Snyder. If you spot any errors, or if you have any comments, please contact her at lusnyde@cyberus.ca. All materials copyright 1996-2001 by their respective creators. No stories, articles, poems or images from this webzine may be posted or published without the written consent of their creator(s).

Kiss for a Princess by Deborah P. Kolodji no good-night kiss, just winking stars floating to sleep, hung half-way between the moon and the shrinking earth suspended, without a mattress or a pea for a princess. one hundred and fifty years to dream a Sleeping Beauty sleep, the injection my spinning wheel spindle weaving spells of slow motion into the future. climbing higher into space, sinking deeper into sleep, tucked inside our spaceship, silently waiting one and twenty spacebirds, sleeping in a frozen pie. reaching further than a lifetime flying beyond old nursery rhymes a falling star singing lullabies I wonder if a prince might wake me with a kiss.