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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SCIENCE FICTION Matches Found: 117 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` #NAME?, by GENE VAN TROYER Poem Source First Line: The man at the center Subject(s): Science Fiction A WOODEN EYE. AN 1884 SILVER DOLLAR. A HOMEMADE EXPLOSIVE. A SET OF FALSE TEETH. AND A 14-KARAT GOLD, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Says my wife, and then she looks up from her book Subject(s): Science Fiction AGAINST HELIOCENTRICITY, by ANDREW DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: The thought's tormenting me Subject(s): Science Fiction AL PURDY & AE VAN VOGT, by DOUGLAS BARBOUR Poem Source First Line: Looking both ways %to the faint tracings hung in air Subject(s): Science Fiction ALL THE USUAL SCI-FI, by LAURA LEE WASHBURN Poem Source First Line: The year 2129, no one uses prepositions Last Line: The desperately quaint asphalt streets Subject(s): Science Fiction AMBITIOUS TO WAKE UP, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something you said a while back intrigued me. I had asked you for a Subject(s): Science Fiction AMBIVALENCE OF SEX, by GENE VAN TROYER Poem Source First Line: Who is the man Subject(s): Science Fiction ANATOMICAL TRANSPARENCIES, by ROBERT FRAZIER Poem Source First Line: When the skin is stripped off our arguments Subject(s): Science Fiction ANIMALISMS, by ANDREW DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Moon silver splinters adrift in flakes Subject(s): Science Fiction ANTEDILUVIAN, by PETER DILLINGHAM Poem Source First Line: Antediluvians %old land lords Subject(s): Science Fiction ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN & EDWARD BRYANT, by DOUGLAS BARBOUR Poem Source First Line: Clanking' %it rankles a Subject(s): Science Fiction ASCENSION, by PETER REDGROVE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The ocean of air carried on the shoulders Subject(s): Science Fiction ASSASSIN, by JACK FOLEY Poem Source First Line: It was extraordinary how easily he fell. I had expected something more Subject(s): Science Fiction BEACON, by ANDREW JORON Poem Source First Line: The caul's hung on a line Subject(s): Science Fiction BREAKING INTO THE CRYSTAL TEXT, by ANDREW JORON Poem Source First Line: Each step echoes %in the interstices of this knowledge Subject(s): Science Fiction CARD #27, by MARK LABA Poem Source First Line: You monster sacrificing yourself to a mountain of glass Subject(s): Science Fiction CATALYST, by JONATHAN VOS POST Poem Source First Line: Enzyme love, split me from the world Subject(s): Science Fiction CERRO DE LA ESTRELLA, by JOHN OLIVER SIMON Poem Source First Line: Living in the eternal digit of the present moment Subject(s): Science Fiction CERTAINTY, by JACK FOLEY Poem Source First Line: Who has told you this? Where do your messages come from? Subject(s): Science Fiction CLONEHOUSE, by KATHRYN RANTALA Poem Source First Line: The doubles ooze, %melt in their sex like cells Subject(s): Science Fiction CLOUD SKIER, by PETER DILLINGHAM Poem Source First Line: Alone, %without world or woman Subject(s): Science Fiction COLLEEN THIBAUDEAU & GORDON DICKSON, by DOUGLAS BARBOUR Poem Source First Line: All those worlds %strung thru space but Subject(s): Science Fiction COSMOLOGICAL HOLOPHRASTICS, by PETER DILLINGHAM Poem Source First Line: Holehearted %holotropic %wholehog Subject(s): Science Fiction DAPHNE MARLATT & SAMUEL R. DELANY, by DOUGLAS BARBOUR Poem Source First Line: How the nets work Subject(s): Science Fiction DECLINE, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Over the white pond Last Line: We climb towards midnight Subject(s): Science Fiction DRUM, by IVAN ARGUELLES Poem Source First Line: A simple melody derived from the black sea of music Subject(s): Science Fiction DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT & ROGER ZELANZNY, by DOUGLAS BARBOUR Poem Source First Line: Dark moves %on methane snow Subject(s): Science Fiction EPILOGUE, by GWYN MCVAY Poem Source First Line: In my sci-fi b-movie, well-stocked Last Line: The vaporized amen of hot pine resin Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Science Fiction EVIL EYE, by HORACIO SALAS Poem Source First Line: Maybe that dark jaguar cruising bulnes station Subject(s): Science Fiction EYEBALL TO EYEBALL, by THOMAS M. DISCH Poem Source First Line: Not to discover, but to station themselves behind shuttered windows Subject(s): Science Fiction EYES DREAMING OF MOSCOW, by ANDREW DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Thru unfocused eyes, %a cocktail lounge filled Subject(s): Science Fiction FALL OF THE CITY, by JONATHAN VOS POST Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I forget why I came here. The city is so large, so noisy Subject(s): Science Fiction FATE OF POLYPHEMUS, by ANDREW JORON Poem Source First Line: Once infected, the seminal fact Subject(s): Science Fiction FIGHT IN THE CAVE OF THE MOON BUTCHERS, by ANDREW DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Pteradons glide my room Subject(s): Science Fiction FISSIONARY DREAMS, by ROBERT FRAZIER Poem Source First Line: Once I made a nocturnal breakthrough Subject(s): Science Fiction FLYING HOME, by THOMAS M. DISCH Poem Source First Line: At the moment of lift-off out of the window Subject(s): Science Fiction FRACTAL PATTERN, by ROBERT FRAZIER Poem Source First Line: The crystalline structures step, the snowflake processes imitate, Last Line: Self-cloning-this white noise. Self-similar-an ordered poise. Subject(s): Science Fiction FRACTAL SERANADES, by ROBERT FRAZIER Poem Source First Line: Unhinge the petals of your numbers Subject(s): Science Fiction GRAND BUVEUR VIII, by PETER REDGROVE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The sealed book of his heart Subject(s): Science Fiction GREAT COMPLAINT AGAINST MY OBSCURITY III, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where we come from, blossoms all over the clocks flare and Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; Science Fiction GWENDOLYN MACEWAN & VONDA MCINTYRE, by DOUGLAS BARBOUR Poem Source First Line: Listen this %shadow on black Subject(s): Science Fiction HAPPINESS, by FREDERICK POLLACK Poem Source First Line: The wall was %ugly. Colors Last Line: It was summer Subject(s): Science Fiction HAWK, by KATHRYN RANTALA Poem Source First Line: A hawk %random branched %scans Subject(s): Science Fiction HEARTACHER AND THE WAREHOUSEMAN, by DAVID R. BUNCH Poem Source First Line: It was high on old re-do row, that big moderan warehousing Subject(s): Science Fiction HISTORY OF THE DREAM, by IVAN ARGUELLES Poem Source First Line: Silhouettes of silver spikes jut into the ether Subject(s): Science Fiction HOLO-CAUSTIC, by PETER DILLINGHAM Poem Source First Line: Left hemisphere %'it was visible by day %like venus' Subject(s): Science Fiction HORSE AND THE APHID, by PETER REDGROVE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: An insect resembles horses, with jalousies Subject(s): Science Fiction IN THE STUDIO, by PETER REDGROVE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The grey sculptor in his dusty studio Subject(s): Science Fiction IN THE VALLEY OF THE PHARAOH OF THE SHADOW, by IVAN ARGUELLES Poem Source First Line: As in a ruin of sleep or water the sand rises Subject(s): Science Fiction INCENSE SALESMAN, by KATHRYN RANTALA Poem Source First Line: This rose wafted here Subject(s): Science Fiction INTERSTELLAR TRACT, by BRUCE BOSTON Poem Source First Line: I will teach you my earth people Subject(s): Science Fiction IRON HEAVEN, by BETTI ALVER Poem Source First Line: Today I saw a place no one has seen Last Line: Of the earth %and feel its wings of weakness Subject(s): Science Fiction; Spiritual Life JOHN NEWLOVE & URSULA K. LE GUIN, by DOUGLAS BARBOUR Poem Source First Line: Meadow larks %the tree hates no one Subject(s): Science Fiction KNOWLEDGE OF LOSS, by GENE VAN TROYER Poem Source First Line: The man at the center Subject(s): Science Fiction LAMENT, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep and death, the dark eagles Last Line: The silent face of the night Subject(s): Science Fiction; World War I LEONARD COHEN & THOMAS M. DISCH, by DOUGLAS BARBOUR Poem Source First Line: A clever corpse is catching Subject(s): Science Fiction LIMITS, by DAVID ERIC LUNDE Poem Source First Line: Still the universal shrapnel hurtles Subject(s): Science Fiction LITERARY, by MICHAEL HAMBURGER Poem Source First Line: A fellow scribbler shows me his last poem Subject(s): Science Fiction LOOKING BACK AT APOLLO, by STEVE RASNIC TEM Poem Source First Line: That first step: %rising on belief, virtuosity Subject(s): Science Fiction LOOKING BACKWARD, by DAVID ERIC LUNDE Poem Source First Line: At dusk when the life-sippers drink Subject(s): Science Fiction MALINALCO, by JOHN OLIVER SIMON Poem Source First Line: When alberto and the poets came up here Subject(s): Science Fiction MARGARET AVISON & BRIAN ALDISS, by DOUGLAS BARBOUR Poem Source First Line: Winter descending always Subject(s): Science Fiction MEASURE OF LIGHT, by ROBERT FRAZIER Poem Source First Line: Ether drift enigma %absolute motion Subject(s): Science Fiction MIDNIGHT SALTS, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These two nerves that don't touch electric arc Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; Science Fiction MNEMOSYNE'S ENTRENCHMENT, by JONATHAN VOS POST Poem Source First Line: It was a natural defense they had Subject(s): Science Fiction MONAD FOR JACQUES MONOD, by DAVID ERIC LUNDE Poem Source First Line: You'd have thought after darwin Subject(s): Science Fiction MOON, by YVES TROENDLE Poem Source First Line: When she was a girl, coming home across a field, an owl follwed her Subject(s): Science Fiction MY MOTHER AND THE WHEEL OF FIRE, by AL ZOLYNAS Poem Source First Line: If coaxed, my mother will tell the story Subject(s): Science Fiction NARCISSE AND THE BLACK HOLE, by PETER DILLINGHAM Poem Source First Line: Having fallen to within 1.5 (2gm%c2) Last Line: Of that dark mirror. Variant Title(s): Black Holes & Hologramarye: Narcisse And The Black Hol Subject(s): Science Fiction NO LONGER THE STARS, by BRUCE BOSTON Poem Source First Line: In nights of fierce delusion Last Line: A curious ear pressed %upon the stars' sure static Subject(s): Science Fiction NUCLEAR WINTER, by DAVID ERIC LUNDE Poem Source First Line: Like the microwave backflash Subject(s): Science Fiction OF TIME AND THE SIDEREAL SHORE, by BRUCE BOSTON Poem Source First Line: Time and again %I have known the moment Last Line: Contain the night %and all of space beyond Subject(s): Science Fiction ON DUTY, by MICHAEL HAMBURGER Poem Source First Line: Attending the telephone Subject(s): Science Fiction OPTIMISM UNVEILED, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For: %mundane tea-parties %matchbox-makers Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; Science Fiction OWLEATERS, by VANCE AANDAHL Poem Source First Line: Beetle-haired idiot boy Subject(s): Science Fiction PAINTER IN THE LION CAGE, by BETTI ALVER Poem Source First Line: On the ground are my sketches of the contours Last Line: Yet never will be saved from the majestic brute %I drew myself Subject(s): Science Fiction; Spiritual Life PERFECT TRAVELLER, by JOHN OLIVER SIMON Poem Source First Line: There were times in the long journey Subject(s): Science Fiction PLANS, THE PLANS, by GENE VAN TROYER Poem Source First Line: Inertia, grey duration %uncertain skies at morning Subject(s): Science Fiction POEM, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And what will ever replace it Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; Science Fiction POEM UNLIMITED, by NANOS VALAORITIS Poem Source First Line: The foreleg of a bowl of soup hits my jaw Subject(s): Science Fiction POLY, by LEE KENNEY BALLENTINE Poem Source First Line: Father light stands naked on the roof Subject(s): Science Fiction PORTRAIT WITHOUT POSE, by DIANE ACKERMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Was that the dream, the birds clubbing up Subject(s): Science Fiction POST-HISTORIC PASTORALE, by ANDREW JORON Poem Source First Line: The town of mandala is watched over Subject(s): Science Fiction POWER, by PETER REDGROVE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The root which is called a drug Subject(s): Science Fiction PRECISE BY SEA, TRANSPOSED, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; Science Fiction PROCESS, by PETER REDGROVE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Every sound-wave travelling to your ear Subject(s): Science Fiction PSI - REC / FLYING WHITE, by PETER DILLINGHAM Poem Source First Line: Sojourner among the nephele exultations of cloud Subject(s): Science Fiction QUICK AIR, by PETER REDGROVE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The electrical fire is easily obtained Subject(s): Science Fiction RICHARD ANDSOFORTH, by THOMAS M. DISCH Poem Source First Line: Let me, kleptomander, while still it's night Subject(s): Science Fiction SIX FEATHERS OF ALERON, by LEE KENNEY BALLENTINE Poem Source First Line: Grimes of exposure layered and lost in dry skin Subject(s): Science Fiction STAIRWAY TO HADES, by ANDREW DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: I can't quite remember the re-creation of the world Subject(s): Science Fiction STARS ARE DOWN, by KATHRYN RANTALA Poem Source Subject(s): Science Fiction STAYING BEHIND, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The darkness comes up to the windows Subject(s): Science Fiction STAYING HOME, by THOMAS M. DISCH Poem Source First Line: At the moment the darkness comes up to the windows Subject(s): Science Fiction SWEET RADIUM, by JONATHAN VOS POST Poem Source First Line: We are the stillborn child of marie Subject(s): Science Fiction TAILOR CALLED SORROW, by BETTI ALVER Poem Source First Line: Yesterday in drizzling rain Last Line: Hang, %and mingled white basting thread %in their hair Subject(s): Science Fiction; Spiritual Life THRESHOLD TO A FAR DISTANCE, by EDWARD DELEHANT MYCUE Poem Source First Line: Where the wind begins Subject(s): Science Fiction TIME FLIGHT, by GENE VAN TROYER Poem Source First Line: His skin feels %like the sail of a soaring kite Subject(s): Science Fiction TITANS, by BETTI ALVER Poem Source First Line: Don't suppose that the weightless phantom Last Line: Yet some blazing hand will remake the chaos %of earth, people, and death Subject(s): Science Fiction; Spiritual Life TO IRELAND, by RAY BRADBURY Poem Source First Line: I dare not go-that isle has ghosts Last Line: And kills my soul, my heart, and me Variant Title(s): To Ireland, No Mor Subject(s): Science Fiction TO THE COLONY, by MARK DAVID RICH Poem Source First Line: Ship-pod had burst Subject(s): Science Fiction TRANSITION, by DIANE ACKERMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: In white gowns of winter Last Line: Will soon gallop in all directions Subject(s): Science Fiction TRANSPARENT KINGDOM, by ALBERTO BLANCO Poem Source First Line: The point has no direction Subject(s): Science Fiction TRILBY, by LEE KENNEY BALLENTINE Poem Source First Line: Now opens the muscle of the heart Subject(s): Science Fiction TWO WALKERS ACROSS THE TIME FLATS, by ANDREW JORON Poem Source First Line: How the trees %stand here, like statements of loss Subject(s): Science Fiction VENTRILOQUISM, by LEE KENNEY BALLENTINE Poem Source First Line: All the panes of glass are thrumming Subject(s): Science Fiction; Ventriloquists VIBES, by PETER REDGROVE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: In front of slaves' eyes in the markets Subject(s): Science Fiction VISION OF HIROSHIMA, by OSCAR HAHN Poem Source First Line: He hurled upon the triple city a single Subject(s): Science Fiction VISIT, by JACK FOLEY Poem Source First Line: He stood, roughly, in the doorway, eating an apple Subject(s): Science Fiction WAVE - PARTICLE PARADOX, by ANDREW DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Driving through the heart of freezing suns Subject(s): Science Fiction WHEN A BEE FROM ONE HIVE ENTERS ANOTHER, by LEE KENNEY BALLENTINE Poem Source Subject(s): Science Fiction WHEN SILVER PLUMS FALL, by BRUCE BOSTON Poem Source First Line: In the chambered nautilus Last Line: And rise against the vacuum Subject(s): Science Fiction WHITE HYPNOSIS OF OVERLAPPING WAVES, BOILING SURF, by DIANE ACKERMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Subject(s): Science Fiction WONDERING WHAT HEAVEN SOUNDS LIKE AFTER DEATH, by IVAN ARGUELLES Poem Source Subject(s): Science Fiction WORDS, PERHAPS, FOR MUSIC, by DOUGLAS BARBOUR Poem Source First Line: Bring midnight in curses Subject(s): Science Fiction WORLD IS EVERYTHING THAT IS THE CASE, by JACK FOLEY Poem Source First Line: The favored victim the sweetings the boundary Subject(s): Science Fiction YELLOW COLD, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We're going clouding with the eskimos Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. 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