Secret Agent
Deborah P. Kolodji
seeking sweet smells of explosive compounds,
her radio chip buzzes in spring skies
scanning for danger hidden underground.
Calculating flight by angles of sun
over farm acres of mine pollution,
sugar water rewards assignments done,
making honey, blind to the solution.
Cambodia, Angola, Mozambique
Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia
her mission remaining the same, to seek
chemical vapors for the keeper of
her engineered life. Oblivious she
continues, working "Project: Honeybee."
Author Bio
Deborah P. Kolodji is a single mother of three children who lives in California. She works as a database administrator for a living to support her poetry habit. Her poems have appeared in Star*Line, Tales of the Unanticipated, Dreams and Nightmares and Troubadour. Her work has appeared in the webzines, Orphic Chronicle, Dark Planet and Ibn Qirtaiba in addition to Twilight Times.
Two of Deborah's poems have been nominated for a Rhysling Award by the members of the Science Fiction Poetry Association (http:\\dm.net\~bejay\sfpa.htm). One of Deborah's poems was tied for second place on the 1999 "Preditors and Editors Readers Poll"
Other poems by Deborah
"Angels Aflame"
"Ghosts of the Intersection"
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