- The Short Waltz to Paradise
The service on this ship is Ragnarok
But the chairs are comfortable
The orchestrix plays so I move
There is one strongbox from which
No escapist escapes
If that is untrue
Then I am wrong and
Everybody’s uncle was a
Real magician
Thus Ixion
Forever on fire forever whirling [End Page 154]
Sundin Richards is the author of The Hurricane Lamp (Otis Nebula, 2010). His work has appeared in many journals, both print and online. He was the winner of the Western Humanities Review’s Utah Writers’ Competition for Poetry and has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize.