Hypatia Pickens

Just In Time

Justin, time has not completed you. Your mobile face when you were just a child of five
Brought billowing laughter up from my heart just in time
For me to hope my fondness would
Follow you where this
Vain war might
Seem just . . .
In
Time.

Bio

"Hypatia Pickens" is a Professor of English at a university in Upstate New York, writes and publishes poetry and fiction and offers a weekly open mic in Second Life called "Strange and Sudden Literature." She has a penchant for the formal in poetry and the magical in fiction, and she has published (under other virtual names) in HazMat, Bathhouse, Centrifugal Eye, Blue Angel Landing, Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Terra Incognita, and she has written teleplays and story ideas for Star Trek: The Next Generation. She is busy perfecting her building and art work to go with her writing, and has plans for a medieval studies educational sim.