{"id":10058,"date":"2025-12-05T10:42:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/?page_id=10058"},"modified":"2025-12-26T19:59:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T19:59:23","slug":"starline-35-4-october-december-2012","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/starline\/starline-35-4-october-december-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Star*Line 35.4 (October-December 2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:85%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:34% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"288\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/35.4.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of Star*Line 35.4 showing the head of a person whose painted eyes leak into the furrows between rows in the field\" class=\"wp-image-8414 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/35.4.jpg 288w, https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/35.4-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Cover<\/strong>: <em>Sleep Voyeur<\/em> \u00a9 2012 Skinny Gaviar<br><strong>Editor<\/strong>: F.J. 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Chris Lynch<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#fourth\">New Vaccine Slows Aging by Michael Kriesel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"#toc\">Full Table of Contents<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"ed\">Wyrms &amp; Wormholes: Beautiful Terrors<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Rilke has said that beauty is only the onslaught of terror. He may be right, but the reverse is also true: there is beauty in terror as well as terror in beauty. How else to explain the appeal of horror, the delectation of an exquisite frisson of fear and\/or disgust? Wandering the garden by night, in the tenebrous wasteland left in the wake of months-long drought and the depredations of squash borers and Japanese beetles (themselves gorgeous in the iridescence of their dark armor), pale pumpkins deflate like the doomed hot-air balloons of a miniature humanoid race, collapsing into a ruin of rot; outcast tomatoes squelch underfoot with only momentary resistance, suggesting putrescent organs that even a zombie wouldn\u2019t touch. Farther out, along a moon-gilded road, the fabulously loopy entrails of what had possibly been a raccoon, orange (<em>orange?<\/em>) and glutinous, seem to glow from the shadows of the drainage ditch. Of course, the horror instantly reaches its zenith when the dog discovers the mess, and tries to roll in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Identifying\u2014and creating\u2014beauty in the terrible, the horrible, is the poet\u2019s task. The poet Ross Gay speaks of \u201cthe dazzle \/ of gold-threaded embroidery inside \/ the hangman\u2019s mask\u201d\u2014not only noticing beauty where its existence might be presumed to be impossible, but generating a surreal juxtaposition with horror. But horror\u2014terror, if it\u2019s done well\u2014in the literary sense is not merely a special effect, not just one of the tools at our disposal, not only a symbol of our collective angst, but, by giving voice to our secret embellishments on darkness, a weapon in the battle that all of us fight against loneliness and despair. Gay ends the poem with these lines:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>        [\u2026]&nbsp;<em>against which the ascent<br>        of a crow into the night, a tendril of carrion<br>        dangling in the clutched beak,<br>        and a moment, a diamond<br>        of starlight streaking its black wing,<br>        which is what we, against it, are:<br>        &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; impossible,<br>        golden, longing, gone.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>        \u2014Ross Gay, \u201cIt Starts at Birth\u201d<br>        from&nbsp;<em>Against Which<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I keep prodding speculative poets to be more intrusive with respect to the mundane community. Hallowe\u2019en is the perfect excuse for confronting others with zombie poems, vampire poems, werewolf poems, or poems that are just plain weird. Make a practice of actively engaging other literary communities as a genre poet\u2014although whether I bring speculative poetry to my mainstream-poetry crit group or poetry to the speculative fiction group, the cringing, deer-in-the-headlights look on the faces of the other participants is the same. Tell yourself that it\u2019s the beauty that terrorizes them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014<em>F.J. Bergmann,<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Star*Line<\/em>&nbsp;Editor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"choice\">Editor&#8217;s Choice Poems<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"first\">&#8220;In This House of Sinners,&#8221; by Isaac Black<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Did someone miscount, miscalculate, pull<br>the wrong straw, assign you a number<br>that\u2019s odd or outdated? I\u2019m looking at your<br>dossier and everything seems in order.<br>Help me here. Was the gun a .357 Magnum,<br>and did you fire it? It appears that bullets<br>took flight after Despair and Jealousy. One<br>passed, with due speed, through Sabrina\u2019s<br>aorta. Death was instantaneous. Doc. #1788<br>says, in fact, that you dragged your missus<br>out of the bedroom in her pink PJs, leaving<br>a brushstroke\u2014a lattice of violet inkblots.<br>You laid her out like a washerwoman,<br>tampered with, called 911 like you\u2019d come<br>home from Holy Communion only to find<br>her body. We couldn\u2019t help but laugh.<br>Our hot line lit. But what about ballistics,<br>powder burns, body cooling, muscular<br>flaccidity, one thumbprint? Here, we<br>have the timeline: shades for black eyes,<br>long sleeves after&nbsp;<em>I\u2019m sorry,<\/em>&nbsp;those&nbsp;<em>I\u2019ll<br>never do it again<\/em>&nbsp;bruises. That Jack Pyke<br>Skinning Knife scared the shit out of her.<br>Got it all in Technicolor, audio, with every<br><em>You Bitch, Whore.<\/em>&nbsp;Forget those tiny spy<br>cameras. We sat with you on the toilet,<br>closer than Scott\u2019s tissue. Before her lover\u2019s<br>pickups, the cheap motels, six-packs, heels<br>on the dash, you were already boiling.<br>The flames took over. We loved how you hid<br>in the folds of tapestries, treaded oil in her<br>Peugeot. Man, you were the air\u2019s greatest<br>trapeze swinger, sea-gull, slug. It\u2019s all<br>recorded here: the maps, Quaaludes, hide-and-<br>seek, dark corners, in triplicate. Frankly,<br>you weren\u2019t too smart. Not that it matters<br>now. In any case, it\u2019s all beyond incriminating.<br>If you want to talk to the hologram of your<br>wife wailing, accusing you, be my guest.<br>Sure, you can pursue this, buddy. But<br>things could get far worse. You\u2019ve seen<br>and felt what\u2019s here. Already, the soles<br>of your feet are peeling. Believe me, in<br>the lower pits it\u2019s hot enough to melt steel,<br>2,750 Fahrenheit at least. Why didn\u2019t you<br>get it? There\u2019re no secrets, perfect crimes.<br>You should have had a boys\u2019 night out,<br>got drunk. Now, it\u2019s a wrap. You could<br>have been working here beside me at<br>the front desk, handling the proverbial<br>bullshit.&nbsp;<em>I am innocent. This has to be<br>a mistake.<\/em>&nbsp;This first-tier cubbyhole is<br>nobody\u2019s picnic. Only coal-fueled boilers,<br>no water, ventilation. But it beats<br>going back down in&nbsp;<em>that<\/em>&nbsp;damn elevator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"second\">&#8220;Since Breaking Through The Ice,&#8221; by Dominik Parisien<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">I have seen them bend a man in an impossible way<br>and pull him down a fishing hole; wrapped<br>my hands, too cold to hold, around my neck<br>and dreamt of drowning under white skies;<br>discovered a mark like a crow\u2019s wings<br>around my left calf;<br>scoured the shore in spring for blue-black<br>bodies I pray wash up but never do;<br>walked on water as though it were frozen,<br>tried diving in only to hit a rippling surface;<br>yearned for the day the ice breaks under me<br>again, so I may go home to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"third\">&#8220;Wild Rat Prophecy,&#8221; by Chris Lynch<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>above the moon<br>a metal nest<br>crumples<br>and a white brother<br>is tossed<br>into the night<br>without end<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>later<br>long after<br>all the seeds<br>and grasshoppers<br>and our pups<br>have been<br>licked away<br>by tongues of fire<br>from the sky<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the frozen body<br>of the albino<br>will be found<br>drifting between stars<br>sliced whisker-thin<br>and sniffed<br>by a thousand<br>wet voices<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"fourth\">&#8220;New Vaccine Slows Aging,&#8221; by Michael Kriesel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;        \u2014<em>USA Today<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the shot you bleed white:<br>shoulder weeping a bright teardrop<br>a CDC nurse wipes away.<br>Wrapped in a bathrobe of flames<br>the president levitates while<br>promising we\u2019ll live forever.<br>He just needs four more years.<br>You can see where this is going<br>though no one saw it coming<br>when the grass quit growing.<br>Time is becoming a thing of the past<br>as rivers slow, then cease to flow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"toc\">Full Table of Contents<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Departments<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Wyrms &amp; Wormholes *&nbsp;<em><em>F.J. Bergmann<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>President\u2019s Message \u2022&nbsp;<em>David C. Kopaska-Merkel<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>From the Small Press \u2022&nbsp;<em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em>excerpted reviews by Joshua Gage, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Susan Gabrielle, Edward Cox, Denise Dumars, John Philip Johnson, Sandra Lindow<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/resources\/speculative-poetry-book-reviews\/\">Full reviews<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stealth SF \u2022&nbsp;<em>Denise Dumars<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cons, etc. \u2022&nbsp;<em>reports &amp; other news<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Art<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Wired for Destiny \u2022 Randy Moore<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Future Spark \u2022 Randy Moore<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Space 7 \u2022 Denny E. Marshal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Portal \u2022 Denny E. 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