The Card II
By PaBurke
Rating: G
Series: Short communiqués between Jack O'Neill and his clone. Part II.
Spoilers: Heroes II
Disclaimer: SG1 goes to SciFi and Emily Dickinson really wrote the poem.
Word Count: 132
Distribution: Mini-Jack Mailing List
The teen was surprised with the card in the mailbox. The return address was entirely too familiar. The picture on the card was that of some sort of a flower, not at all what he'd expect from himself.
He sat on his front stoop and opened the card. The bold handwriting jumped out at him:
"I went to thank her,
But she slept;
Her bed a funneled stone,
With nosegays at the head and foot,
That travelers had thrown,
Who went to thank her;
But she slept.
'T was short to cross the sea
To look upon her like, alive,
But turning back 't was slow."
Underneath the poem were two things; Janet Fraiser's name and a cemetery plot number. The colonel had simply written, 'Thought you should know.'
The teen wept.