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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.
Subject(s): Dadaism; Science Fiction