Mary Soon Lee was born and raised in London, but now lives in Pittsburgh. She writes both fiction and poetry, and has won the Rhysling Award and the Elgin Award. Her credits include Analog, F&SF, and Strange Horizons. She has an antiquated website at https://www.marysoonlee.com and tweets at @MarySoonLee.
If he should question you,
answer without trepidation:
Pluto does not gossip.
He will keep his promises.
His views on the Kuiper...
Remember the gravity of his crime,
why the Sun sentenced him
to this far orbit.
Do not listen to his pleas.
Stop up your ears...
Permit him to pirouette,
spinning as you paint.
Capture his contrasts.
Hammered heat, hidden ice.
Sketch his expression,
capricious...
The splintered scrape of broken bone,
forced to and fro across sharp stone.
No one to see, no one to care
how slowly died the...
