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15Dwarfstars.Pdf The Dwarf Stars anthology is a selection of the best speculative poems of ten lines or fewer from the previous year, nominated by the Science Fiction Poetry Association membership and chosen for publication by the editors. From this anthology, SFPA members vote for the best poem. The winner receives the Dwarf Stars Award, which is analogous to the SFPA Rhysling Awards, given annually for poems of any length. CONGRATULATIONS TO LAST YEAR’S DWARF STARS AWARD WINNERS! 1st Place: And Deeper than Did Ever Plummet Sound • Matt Joiner • Strange Horizons, 9/2/2013 2nd Place: The Loss • Mari Ness • Strange Horizons, 9/23/2013 3rd Place: Hourglass • David Livingstone Clink • Prism International 51:3 Cover: Two Crows, a Ghost, and the Moon (detail) 8" x 10" oil on panel © 2011 Kelli Hoppmann https://www.facebook.com/KelliHoppmannPaints The text was set in WG Gilded Hand, WG Halloh, WG Wild Spaces, and Latienne, using Adobe InDesign. © 2015 Science Fiction Poetry Association sfpoetry.com All rights to poems retained by individual poets. Dwarf Stars 2015 THE BEST VERY SHORT SPECULATIVE POEMS PUBLISHED IN 2015 edited by John Amen Science Fiction Poetry Association Introduction The short form, whether prose or verse, and regardless of genre, stresses economy and immediacy. In this case, I was glad to encounter so many speculative pieces that in 10 lines or fewer both established a memorable voice and conjured a complete and viable world. From the beginning, I hoped to include as many poets as possible and to represent a wide variety of publications; quality of work, of course, taking precedence. I was able to accomplish this: there is indeed an impressive range of voices and content here, poets exploring various themes, some perennial, some uniquely personal, some humorous, some hauntingly grim. In each case, the language used is the poet’s own. I appreciated reading the many pieces nominated and am convinced that the selections contained in this year’s Dwarf Stars Anthology are representative and in some cases exemplars of the speculative short-form poem. I hope that this content leaves you inspired, tickled, and curious. —John Amen June 2015 Only current SFPA members may vote for the 2015 Dwarf Stars Award. Choose first, second, and third choice poems and select them in the online voting form: (link posted at sfpoetry.com/ds/15dwarfstars.html) or send by postal mail to: John Amen 6815 Honors Ct Voting deadline: Charlotte, NC 28210 August 31, 2015! iv Dwarf Stars 2015 Table of Contents Nonfiction Jonel Abellanosa 1 Their Nature Francis W. Alexander 1 Witch’s Primer, Lesson 4 Erik Amundsen 1 “jupiter a pixel …” Joseph Salvatore Aversano 2 the explorer Ross Balcom 2 The Square Root of Doppelgängers Robert Borski 2 Pink Unicorns Robert Borski 3 Surreal Shopping List Bruce Boston 3 Not Only Thoats Bruce Boston 4 “her perfume” David Boyer 4 “thunderhead losing …” Mark E. Brager 4 Song for Otter Alicia Cole 5 Shellac P.S. Cottier 5 “through icicles” Septimiu M. Cristian 6 The Fate of Worlds William Cullen, Jr. 6 “moment of peak oil” William Cullen, Jr. 6 “it’s recycling day” William Cullen, Jr. 6 “Valentine’s Day” Rebecca Drouilhet 6 “building my first clone” Angel Favazza 7 “a long look” Angel Favazza 7 “new galaxy” Lorin Ford 7 The Lonely Future of Philip K. Dick Adele Gardner 7 “fangs in a glass” LeRoy Gorman 7 “a new bridge” LeRoy Gorman 7 “garbage in—garbage out” C. William Hinderliter 7 “martian greenhouse” Carolyn M. Hinderliter 8 Pro-Life K.L. Hasell 8 Dragon Girl C.E. Hyun 8 Roadkill Michael Kriesel 8 Restoration Herb Kauderer 9 private source Herb Kauderer 9 “Fermat’s last theorem” Deborah P Kolodji 10 “drones …” Deborah P Kolodji 10 v Science Fiction Poetry Association The Holly King Sandi Leibowitz 10 “cyborg surgery” Sandra J. Lindow 10 First Encounter Lauren McBride 10 Cosmic Choice Alan Meyrowitz 11 Zatanna’s Haiku P. Andrew Miller 11 Bone Song Mari Ness 11 Queen of Cups A.J. Odasso 12 “before the great upload” Eric Otto 12 “beside the forlorn robot” Eric Otto 12 “her fingerprints” Eric Otto 12 dream John Reinhart 13 scent of a corpuscle Terrie Leigh Relf 13 “abandoned nursing home” Greg Schwartz 13 Everyone was stealing … Claudia Serea 14 Trinket Earth Anna Sykora 14 In Conclusion Sonya Taaffe 14 Downstairs Up Neal Wilgus 15 “by chance” James Won 15 “Cthulhu partners” Greer Woodward 15 Princess: A Life Jane Yolen 15 vi Dwarf Stars 2015 NONFICTION If before midnight you catch a sight of the golden leaf gliding into the well, return by the moon’s lent light knowing all is well, your prayer water stilled. What the wind picks from the weary bough and tosses in your way, consume. Love might keep the candles burning. The nightingale might sing. —Jonel Abellanosa THEIR NATURE They continue to fight obliterating sandcastles even as their star, bursting from obesity, starts to roll the planet WITCH’S PRIMER, LESSON 4 on its hived tongue —Francis W. Alexander On a chilly night with no moon, a hare can catch an owl with its belly as bait with its guts as a snare binding silence in, stretch it over in skin as it eats you from the inside. Then sew yourself up no one ever need know why your feet make no sound at all. —Erik Amundsen 1 Science Fiction Poetry Association jupiter a pixel from here —Joseph Salvatore Aversano THE EXPLORER heart tell me why i call lost cities home —Ross Balcom THE SQUARE ROOT OF DOPPELGANGERS¨ We're as intimately linked as proton and electron, mirror and reflection—me, the Zoroastrian shadow to his bright particle of hydrogen. Together, the two of us playing Hyde-and-seek, dodging just in and out of each other's field of vision like Felis cheshirae, until ultimately, tired of twinship, each of us attempts to usurp the other, only to both win and lose, becoming non-primes, zeroed out, banished into oneness. —Robert Borski 2 Dwarf Stars 2015 PINK UNICORNS Turns out they're surprisingly easy to assemble, incorporating genes from horses, narwhales, and roses. Unfortunately, as with most chimeras, there are difficulties with epigenetic dysregulation, but eventually, if we're patient and demand remains high, we'll solve the lethal vomiting rainbows problem —Robert Borski SURREAL SHOPPING LIST the autobiography of a trellis a brisance of laughter so loud trilobites pause to listen noctilucent bridge mix (2 sacks) a guerrilla theatre staged in ragged flesh hallucinogenic cutlet with flies ravishing inversion of sunflowers stretching the skin of the eye the burning bush 3 lbs Stonehenge —Bruce Boston 3 Science Fiction Poetry Association NOT ONLY THOATS Ancient Song of Barsoom Not only thoats weep in the canyons of high deserts. Not only thoats in harness follow the beaten track to extinction. Not only thoats know the sky before a storm. Not only thoats fear the violence of war. Not only thoats leave the future behind. Not only thoats stumble from the ruins of devastation. Not only thoats see their breath condensing on the winter air. Not only thoats need the warm dark. —Bruce Boston her perfume through the canals of Mars —David Boyer thunderhead losing myself in big data —Mark E. Brager 4 Dwarf Stars 2015 SONG FOR OTTER Let me draw the brine of the water to my throat, sink in a dipper until it’s laden. My lips will drink and crack, wracked with salt. If the ocean is where I must go delving, hear me clam-cracker, soft diving magician: I will take you for my own, row with you in long strokes until fur graces my limbs and I float on the breast of the icy sea. —Alicia Cole SHELLAC Shellac is a resin secreted by the female lac bug, on trees in the forests of India and Thailand. (Wikipedia) Shellac nails wake every night as their woman sleeps. They click and grow legs, which they rub together. They attempt to lift themselves from the second carapace of nail to which they are fused. Frustrated, they secrete eggs which fall, and bury themselves in the woman's skin. Look down lady; see those tiny bumps you thought were ingrown hairs, mere gummy follicles? There are insects growing under your skin, insects that will shine as bright as those ladybird nails that bloom on the thin white stems of your fingers. Lackadaisical dreams now follow. —P.S. Cottier 5 Science Fiction Poetry Association through icicles he sees the entire universe exploding harmony of black holes —Septimiu M. Cristian THE FATE OF WORLDS A bat's swoop blinks out some stars ever so briefly like an oracle revealing where black holes will be. —William Cullen, Jr. moment of peak oil the big bang of humankind reverses itself —William Cullen, Jr. it's recycling day a wail from our old robot in the compactor —William Cullen, Jr. Valentine’s Day his robot writes her a poem —Rebecca Drouilhet 6 Dwarf Stars 2015 building my first clone putting so much of myself in it a long look —Angel Favazza over a microscope— the face of the galaxy new galaxy —Angel Favazza a pomegranate splits its skin —Lorin Ford THE LONELY FUTURE OF PHILIP K. DICK we don't read Dick fragselves trapped in separate plots blank checks cancelled out —Adele Gardner fangs in a glass the politician a new bridge calls it a day between nations trolls on both sides —LeRoy Gorman take up their positions —LeRoy Gorman garbage in—garbage out a transhumanist's soul found in my spam folder —C. William Hinderliter 7 Science Fiction Poetry Association martian greenhouse the buzz of the robot bees —Carolyn M.
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