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Deborah P Kolodji Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association Edited by Deborah P Kolodji The Dwarf Stars anthology is a selection of the best speculative poems of ten lines or fewer (100 words or fewer for prose poems) from the previous year, nominated by the Science Fiction & Fantasy 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. 1 Cover: Ritual by Steven Vincent Johnson acrylic on board © 1978 sjvart.orionworks.com The text was set in Agenda, ITC Busorama BT, Caflisch Script, and Cantoria MT. using Adobe InDesign. * © 2018 Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association sfpoetry.com All rights to poems retained by individual poets. Dwarf Stars 2018 The Best Very Short Speculative Poems Published in 2017 edited by Deborah P Kolodji Introduction THE SHORT OF IT As the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association celebrates its 40th Anniversary, I feel honored to return to my original (2006) role as the Dwarf Stars editor. An unofficial “demonstration” Dwarf Stars chapbook in 2005 was used to try to convince the membership to create a short-short Rhysling Award category. My position then and now is that a very short poem is read differently than a longer poem, and it is difficult to compare a haiku to a 49-line narrative poem. A haiku’s beauty lies in what is not being said; the reader sits with the poem and allows it to resonate. A longer narrative poem is experienced more like a story, the poem leading the reader on an adventure through its detailed imagery. But Dwarf Stars is more than haiku—it is about all short speculative poetry, 10 lines or less, sparkling with minimalism, yet touching on fantastical themes in skillfully chosen words. I self-identify as a haiku poet, but appreciate very short poetry in all forms. In any volume or journal of poetry, I will read all of the short poems first, then go back and read the longer poems as time permits. It is those brief glimpses of fantastical themes that draw my interest. Back in 2005–2006, the Rhysling-category vote ended in a tie; then-SFPA-President Mike Allen’s solution was to create a Dwarf Stars award. This solution produces a highly readable chapbook, brimming over with very short speculative poetry gems. I look forward each year to receiving my copy and now can’t imagine it happening any other way. The landscape of short-short speculative poetry has changed slightly in the dozen years since the first Dwarf iv Dwarf Stars 2018 Stars in that it seems there is a much larger quantity of it being published and the bar for quality has been raised even higher. In 2018, a larger number of published short- short spec poems in non-spec journals came to the Dwarf Stars submissions mailbox and I didn’t need to look as hard elsewhere as I have in past years. This is good, I think, because it means we are getting the word out to the larger poetry community. This installment of Dwarf Stars contains 62 poems from a wide variety of places and I hope you’ll enjoy reading them as much as I did. Thank you so much to the current SFPA officers, who have continued the tradition of Dwarf Stars, for trusting me with the honor of being a return Dwarf Stars editor. —Deborah P Kolodji Deborah P Kolodji is the California regional coordinator for the Haiku Society of America and the former president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Author of four chapbooks of poetry, her first full- length book of haiku and senryu is highway of sleeping towns from Shabda Press, which was awarded a 2017 Touchstone Distinguished Book Award from the Haiku Foundation. She has published more than 900 haiku. Only current SFPA members may vote for the 2018 Dwarf Stars Award. Choose first, second, and third place poems and select them in the online voting form: http://bit.ly/DwarfStars2018 or send by postal mail to: Renee Ya SFPA Secretary PO Box 2074 Voting deadline: August 31, 2018! San Mateo CA 94401 v Past Dwarf Stars Winners 2017 “aster than the speed of lightf ” • LeRoy Gorman • Scifaikuest, November 2016. 2016 We Begin This Way • Stacey Balkun • Gingerbread House 16. 2015 “abandoned nursing home” • Greg Schwartz • Tales of the Talisman 9:3. 2014 And Deeper Than Did Ever Plummet Sound • Mat Joiner • Strange Horizons, 2 September 2013. 2013 Basho- After Cinderella (iii) • Deborah P Kolodji • Rattle 38. 2012 Blue Rose Buddha • Marge Simon • The Mad Hattery (Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2011). 2011 “Comet“ • Julie Bloss Kelsey • microcosms. 2010 Bumbershoot • Howard V. Hendrix • Abyss & Apex, First Quarter 2009. 2009 Fireflies • Geoffrey A. Landis • Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2008. 2008 Place Mat by Moebius • Greg Beatty • Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2007. 2007 Last Unicorn • Jane Yolen • Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2006. 2006 Knowledge Of • Ruth Berman • Kerem 10, Autumn 2005. > Table of Contents “abandoned colony roof,” Joshua Gage 1 “absolute zero,” Susan Burch 1 “after last year,” Ann K. Schwader 1 “alien,” Susan Burch 1 Alien Dowry, Robert Borski 2 Beauty, Sleeping, Marsheila Rockwell 2 Betsy Ross, F. J. Bergmann 3 “bloody spindle,” Christina Sng 3 Carbon Footprint, Ann K. Schwader 3 Chiasmus, Deborah L. Davitt 4 The Colors of Time, Deborah L. Davitt 4 “depleted plutonium,” Alan Summers 4 “doomsday clock," dl mattila 4 “down to earth,” C. R. Harper 5 “everything,” Joan Prefontaine 5 “first time away …,” Billy Antonio 5 “footprint in red dust,” Frank Coffman 5 For in that Sleep …, Lauren McBride 6 “fresh back from weeks in space,” Lisa Timpf 6 Full Moon Forecast, Bruce Boston 6 “ger-,” C. R. Harper 7 Ghoul Cloud, John C. Mannone 7 “graveyard,” Tiffany Shaw-Diaz 7 The Green, Kath Abela Wilson 8 “ICU,” Billy Antonio 8 If it will help you think …, Sonya Taaffe 9 If Only a Werewolf, Minadora Macheret 9 If She Knew …, David C. Kopaska-Merkel 10 “instead of a halo,” Julie Bloss Kelsey 10 keeping company, Herb Kauderer 11 Lace at the Throat, Holly Walrath 11 The Little Laser Girl, Lorraine Schein 12 vii Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association “loose ends …,” Deborah P Kolodji 12 Lo Shu’s Magic Square, Deborah L. Davitt 13 “lunar graveyard,” William Shaw 14 Marbles, John C. Mannone 14 “Monday morning,” Gregory Longenecker 14 “multiverse theory …,” Christina Sng 15 maybe there are, M. X. Kelly 15 “nightcap,” Joshua Gage 15 “old red barn—,” Mark E. Brager 15 “the odds,” LeRoy Gorman 15 “only hours out,” F. J. Bergmann 16 “orbiting Neptune,” Joshua Gage 16 “painting fences,” Alan Summers 16 “red planet—,” Sam Bateman 16 Rock, Paper, Scissors, Robert Borski 17 “ruby sky,” Christina Sng 17 “Saturn’s rings,” Marietta McGregor 17 “scent of blackened,” Greer Woodward 17 “seconds before,” Christina Sng 18 Separation Anxiety, Shannon Connor Winward 18 “silent jump,” Tom Sacramona 18 Space Efficient, Herb Kauderer 18 “time snake,” NE Taylor 19 “time travel dining,” LeRoy Gorman 19 Time Travel No. 7, Soren James 19 “to save space,” Lauren McBride 19 Vampire Fortuneteller, Bruce Boston 20 “what if the ferryman …,” Helen Buckingham 20 “year end,” paul m. 20 “zombie chic,” Helen Buckingham 20 viii Dwarf Stars 2018 abandoned colony roof more stars than solar panels —Joshua Gage absolute zero you couldn’t have been any colder —Susan Burch after last year we seal our helmets interspecies gift exchange —Ann K. Schwader alien restructuring— our cubicles now hang from the glass ceiling —Susan Burch 1 Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association Alien Dowry Six canisters of argon, a pair of anti-gravity boots, and a nice tentacle trimmer, preferably gold-plated— this seemed a modest-enough asking price, but all the Earth- bride brought to our wedding was an open heart. —Robert Borski Beauty, Sleeping Behind a briar patch of asteroids A perfect princess sleeps in stasis Her prince arrives by hyperdrive A scavenger on a star-jumping steed He comes to plunder, but not her lips (His mouthless form, alas, unfit) Instead purloins her power supply And leaves her to her fairytale fate Beauty, sleeping Eternally —Marsheila Rockwell 2 Dwarf Stars 2018 Betsy Ross She tired of it quickly: red stripe, white stripe, red stripe, white stripe.… And every star the same. She wanted to sew flamboyant oriflammes: green, azure, egg-yolk yellow, the pink of dawn clouds. Royal purple. Planets and suns, against the black of space. Her last, enormous flag was neatly folded, only the red, white, and blue showing, when they came to pick it up. —F. J. Bergmann bloody spindle putting another princess under again —Christina Sng Carbon Footprint Gone green, Godzilla stomps sustainably: ancient forests avoided, but never humans. —Ann K. Schwader 3 Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association Chiasmus Gases swirling unlit; a star yet to ignite and a dead star’s scattered ashes unite. —Deborah L. Davitt The Colors of Time The sepia past rushes towards the chrome future; the present’s a blur between red-shift memory, and violet dawn’s swift approach. —Deborah L. Davitt depleted plutonium the creases in a photo doomsday clock run across a face the scent of rain —Alan Summers before the rain —dl mattila 4 Dwarf Stars 2018 down to earth the space elevator plays old tunes —C. R. Harper everything in its own time starlight —Joan Prefontaine first time away from home metallic snow —Billy Antonio footprint in red dust mountain impossibly tall in the Martian distance —Frank Coffman 5 Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association For in that Sleep, What Nightmares … While comatose to travel space, Please someone check my pulse, my face and if you see a silent scream while I lie trapped within a dream, then wake me from this hell replayed.
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