Poetry
What They Didn’t Do
by Mary Soon Lee
Fire weapons that warped space with a booming explosive crescendo.
Construct an interstellar highway through our neighborhood.
Invite us to join their galactic sisterhood.
Unlock the secrets of perpetual motion.
Land on the White House lawn.
Colonize our solar system.
Speak our languages.
Harm us.
Stay.
Featured Poet of the Month Mary Soon Lee
Mary Soon Lee was born and raised in London, but now lives in Pittsburgh. Her short stories have appeared in Analog, F&SF, Interzone, Lightspeed, and several Year’s Best anthologies. She has won the Elgin Award and the Rhysling Award for her poetry, and, in August 2017, had 119 haiku in Science, one for each element of the periodic table. She has an antiquated website at http://www.marysoonlee.com