About This Blog ~ This blog is about a series of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) super-hero, sci-fi, fantasy adventure novels called Rainbow Arc of Fire. The main characters are imbued with extraordinary abilities. Their exploits are both varied and exciting, from a GLBT and a human perspective. You can follow Greg, Paul, Marina, Joan, William, and Joseph, as well as several others along the way, as they battle extraordinary foes or take on environmental threats all around the globe and even in outer space. You can access synopses of the ten books using the individual links on the upper, left-hand column.





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Sunday, August 5, 2012

Den & Beth at their Havelock, NC home, August 1974

Probably could have used a flash with this picture.

During the first year or so of my being in Minot, I had to go out to a Launch Facility (LF) to watch a maintenance crew work on a missile.  This was the only time that I did have to go out to an LF,  I wrote the following poem based on that night in the silo:


In the Silo

I recall the surgeons bent by their work
across the patient:  tall,
rough in metal skins--
multicolored, yet all dull tones.
Beheaded three times of its single threat.
Never anticipating eventual re-mating,
but held unarmed,
awaiting passive signals or potent birth.
Mindless, but no monster.

All seeming about some harmless device--
wired,
lost in all those minor techniques.

Wise of their youth;
two stripes, and three, trained above this potential;
Wiring with the confident skills
of all who doctor life.

Tools,
never so terrible as what they tighten
or unleash.
Never smeared of the blood
they might heat.



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