{"id":9780,"date":"2025-11-07T19:48:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/?page_id=9780"},"modified":"2025-12-27T22:35:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T22:35:05","slug":"starline-46-2-spring-2023","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/starline\/starline-46-2-spring-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Star*Line 46.2 (Spring 2023)"},"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=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/46.2.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of Star*Line 46.2 showing a globe that has cracked off a wasteland and two small mammals on either side of the fault\" class=\"wp-image-8540 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/46.2.jpg 288w, https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/46.2-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Cover<\/strong>: <em>Near Worlds Apart<\/em> \u00a9 Zara Kand<br><strong>Editor<\/strong>: Jean-Paul L. 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Wormholes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"#choice\">Editor&#8217;s Choice Poems<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"#first\">First Engineering Job by John Reinhart<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#second\">Up in the Air by Ian Willey<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#third\">Last Act of Service by Gerri Leen<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#fourth\">Our Quantum Detective Works Her Board by Robert Frazier<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#fifth\" data-type=\"internal\" data-id=\"#fifth\">The Office Buildings We Must Maintain by Jason P. Burnham<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#sixth\" data-type=\"internal\" data-id=\"#sixth\">Utopia by S. T. Eleu<\/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\"><em>Wyrms &amp; Wormholes<\/em>: Cybermeat<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to all of the Rhysling nominees! It is always exciting to see speculative poetry and poets from all over the world honored. Speaking of poets, I would be remiss not to mention that it is my belief that poetry should be written by poets. AI has recently taken the humanities by storm, and while part of me wants to embrace the future of this tech, I wholeheartedly believe that AI should not be used in the humanities. Until it becomes sentient, and can be called a poet, because it is truly autonomous and self-aware, AI should be reserved for the sciences, traffic control, and space exploration, rather than stealing work away for our culture\u2019s writers and artists. That being said, if you write the software that writes the poetry I might consider being swayed. As someone who has written autonomous music generation software I understand that tech and art can hold hands, and that it can be of great benefit. But it should never be used to replace humans; after all, it would hardly be the humanities without humanity. Create in whatever you can, however you want to, and do so without rules\u2014but do it with heart! Perhaps when I see one pumping away inside of the machine I will change my mind, but until then my job is to uplift and represent real poets and the poetry that they, that you, write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014<em>Jean-Paul L. Garnier,<\/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;First Engineering Job&#8221; by John Reinhart<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s never that the drive short circuits,<br>never my fault. I\u2019ve checked the wiring,<br>pile the connections, soldered and resoldered<br>loose ends; red connects to red, black connects<br>to black, and the green can go<br>up the captain\u2019s nose. The jump drive jumps<br>whenever I say but it can\u2019t do anything<br>if it\u2019s covered in sickly sticky peppermint stain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSmuggling is an honorable and profitable<br>profession,\u201d the professors said. \u201cBe an engineer<br>and you won\u2019t have to face heavily armed<br>and armored thugbeasts trying to tear your face<br>off to sell it at the outposts,\u201d said Dad. \u201cYou\u2019ll be going<br>places,\u201d said Mom. But these idiots<br>just waste away sucking themselves stupid<br>on peppermints cooked to sugar high, sludging<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the runoff down the vents. I lost two<br>cleaners last week when the thrusters<br>fired and fried them, stuck in white and red<br>impossibility. But we\u2019re Between, the nowhere<br>for trade, where smugglers stop to hide.<br>It could be weeks before a freighter passes<br>close enough to jump; stars taunting me<br>through the windows, little check engine lights<br>reminding me that I thought this job was<br>sweet. Little did I know.<\/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;Up in the Air,&#8221; by Ian Willey<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When we left earth we wanted to take the hawks with us but they wouldn\u2019t go. They stayed up in the air, following the whims of the wind. We used their language to explain to them the severity of the situation: because of the thing we did with the moon (an accident) the wind was getting stronger and in time it would blow everything away including the hawks. They wouldn\u2019t listen. We pleaded with them, we promised them new skies; they were unmoved. I can still hear their cries as we circle through space, searching for a place to land.<\/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;Last Act of Service,&#8221; by Gerri Leen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I hear it from the familiars\u2019 network<br>Your dragon to Elsa\u2019s wolf to my cat<br>You\u2019re gone and I have very little time<br>To make your place presentable<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was your apprentice<br>I owe you this<br>They will remember the magician<br>Not the hoarder<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I use the teleport spell you taught me<br>Manifest in the yard because who knows<br>If there\u2019s even room in the house<br>And take a deep breath before entering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other magicians<br>Will be here soon<br>To pay their last respects<br>As is proper<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I open the door and it\u2019s worse than last time<br>Things piled on the floor, things stacked in shelves<br>At least you threw your food out<br>The place doesn\u2019t smell bad<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I find you on the floor in your bedroom<br>Your dragon heard you stand and then fall<br>I hope you felt no pain<br>I hope you didn\u2019t wait for death<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We get busy, your dragon and I<br>Me with magic, levitating things out<br>Him with fire, burning up the evidence<br>Showing you were incapable of throwing anything out<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Half of your bed is covered with books and<br>Pamphlets, unopened missives<br>Sacks of herbs overflow the kitchen table<br>I\u2019ll hang them once I make room<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It takes all night to clear out, to clean up<br>To put things away, to settle you back in bed<br>Regalements placed over you, your wand<br>In your crossed hands<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dragon leans against me<br>And I turn to him and cry<br>His wings cradle me as I finally mourn<br>Now that your secret shame is gone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>He left me to you,<\/em>&nbsp;the Dragon whispers<br>And I stroke his face and tell him to be nice<br>To my cat, and then he bellows<br>This time through the mage network<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The magical cohort will come, will pay respects<br>I will sit in the corner, exhausted<br>I was your last apprentice and only daughter<br>My service to you is over, my loss will never be<\/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;Our Quantum Detective Works Her Board,&#8221; by Robert Frazier<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Aware of her own ambiguities<br>As a cloned operative undercover,<br>Our DCI voices a quip while sussing out<br>Theories upon her virtual white board:<br>\u201cYou can\u2019t be in two places at once.\u201d<br>Yet she scrawls in luminous marker:<br><em>By quantum information theory the state<br>Of a particle can be replicated at<br>A distance from its relative location.<\/em><br>Then red highlights:&nbsp;<em>relative.<\/em><br>So she challenges the incident room.<br>\u201cIf we can isolate every particle<br>Of our bodies then replicate elsewhere,<br>Can our suspect be temporally dual?\u201d<br>Her lead DI: \u201cYou mean teleportation.<br>That\u2019s just no good of course<br>Without a plan on the other end<br>To put Humpty together again.\u201d<br>Another DI: \u201cAnd after could you\/they<br>Truly be the exact same person.\u201d<br>Our DCI writes out,&nbsp;<em>Can we prosecute a copy?<br>Which of them would be the guilty party?<\/em><br>But what she\u2019s really thinking is<br>\u2014I\u2019m leading a dual life here on duty.\u2014<br>Like the two-state qubit with a value<br>Of one or zero depending on the spin,<br>What outcome will she end up in?<br>Accepted or rejected.<\/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=\"fifth\">&#8220;The Office Buildings We Must Maintain,&#8221; by Jason P. Burnham<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Standing there, gray, abandoned, forlorn<br>The crumbling trellis of commerce<br>We must maintain the office buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Trellises repurposed now for honeysuckle, climbing hydrangea<br>Gray gone green, yellow, and white.<br>The insides too<br>We must maintain the office buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Corporations, traders, meetings all gone<br>Left with wide open spaces<br>Cubicles, offices, plumbing.<br>Group space, bedrooms, communal bathroom.<br>We must maintain the office buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">A roof is a roof<br>Out of the wind<br>Out of the cold<br>Out of the heat<br>Out of the rain<br>We must maintain the office buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Water features now pools, showers, baths<br>Computers a co-op library<br>A place to find jobs, connect with family, or just browse the internet<br>Like everyone else.<br>We must maintain the office buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Close down the shelters if you\u2019re worried about money<br>There\u2019s more than enough room on Main and Broadway<br>We must maintain the office buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">As for the food, no worries, no fear<br>Gardens on the roof, hydroponics inside<br>The food court has the equipment we\u2019ll need<br>Kitchens, dishwashers, refrigerators, freezers<br>Keep the lights on and all will be fed.<br>We must maintain the office buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Now don\u2019t go get jealous<br>They have great views from high up there above town<br>Wave as you go by<br>But don\u2019t gentrify<br>We must maintain the office buildings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Community living, community thriving<br>Keep up the space\u2014don\u2019t waste<br>We must maintain the office buildings.<\/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=\"sixth\">&#8220;Utopia,&#8221; by S. T. Eleu<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">it\u2019s a temperate coastal hamlet<br>within a day\u2019s hike of either snow or sand<br>where slopes and strands stretch as far as leisure allows<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">it\u2019s a hamlet<br>within an hour\u2019s flight of a bustling, hustling metropolis<br>where pleasure has neither time nor reason to fathom fear or regret<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>it\u2019s a metropolis<br>within the freest nation, sheltered from any mythology<br>that would clip its wings and cage its kith and kin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">it\u2019s a nation<br>within a planetary system whose rings<br>harmonize songs offered in absolution<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>it\u2019s a planet<br>within a parallel universe that I now call home<br>a place I live as equally as comfortable<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;in cowboy boots as in eyeshadow<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;in pink as in blue as in silver as in nude<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;in bloom as in abscission<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;as scientist, as poet, as meditation, as serenade<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;as plant as animal as lichen as lycanthrope<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;as multiple lights within the spectrum<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the express leaves at noon<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;don\u2019t be late<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;it seldom returns<\/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>Jean-Paul Garnier<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SFPA Announcements<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>President\u2019s Message *&nbsp;<em>Colleen Anderson<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>From the Small Press *&nbsp;<em><em>Herb Kauderer, John Reinhart, Lisa Timpf<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stealth SF * \u201c<em>Herb Kauderer, John Reinhart, Lisa Timpf<\/em>\u201d *&nbsp;<em>Denise Dumars<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SpecPo Publishing * Interview with Akua Lezli Hope *&nbsp;<em>Jean-Paul Garnier<\/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><em>Fork<\/em>&nbsp;* Denny E. Marshall<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Wind-Up<\/em>&nbsp;* Denny E. Marshall<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Ace of Pentacles<\/em>&nbsp;\u2022 Jake Quatt<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Dinosaur<\/em>&nbsp;* Christina Sng<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Then Weapons Appeared * Lauren McBride<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>First Engineering Job * John Reinhart<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Solo Mission * Anna Cates<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>True vacuum * Richard Magahiz<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Where Seas Boil * Meg Smith<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[above spinning skies] * Howard V. Hendrix<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Grendel\u2019s Mother * Melissa Ridley Elmes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Canals * Christopher R. Muscato<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I Imagine They Will Be Greatly Disappointed * Jordan Hirsch<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[supernova] * Joshua St. Claire<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brokenhearted * Christina Sng<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Far From Home * Avra Margariti<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Q * Anna Cates<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the time-traveler\u2019s daughter * Eva Papasoulioti<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[galaxy spins] * David C. Kopaska-Merkel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sear * J. M. B\u00e9dard<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Up in the Air * Ian Willey<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nikola Tesla * F. J. Bergmann<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Last Act of Service * Gerri Leen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thoroughly wrapped * Yuliia Vereta<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[silver wings] * L. L. Hill<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[your words] * Joshua St. Claire<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Feathered Eclipse of the Sun * Howard V. Hendrix<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As We Move to Hold Hands \u2026 * R. Mac Jones<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Storm God * Carma Lynn Park<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Flying the Carboniferous * Richard Magahiz<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[water ocean planet] * Matthew Wilson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[sipping on plasma * Randall Andrews<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[no eating on the job] * LeRoy Gorman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Our Quantum Detective Works Her Board * Robert Frazier<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>F.U.T.U.R.E. * Yuliia Vereta<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>With the Dead for Company * John Grey<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anonymous Eaters * Yuliia Vereta<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Office Buildings We Must Maintain * Jason P. Burnham<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[sentient AI] * Ngo Binh Anh Khoa<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Coin * David C. Kopaska-Merkel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bioweapons * Mariel Herbert<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Squeeze Play * John H. Dromey<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Symbolic Gesture * John H. Dromey<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the ultimate snack * D. A. Xiaolin Spires<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Starlight * D. M. Crawford<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Countup * Richard Magahiz<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Lying Moon * Beth Cato<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Requiescat in Pace * Jessica Peter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[drowning] * Chris Langer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Destination * Matthew Wilson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[With morning, Newton\u2019s] * Morley Cacoethes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Caves of Trappist-1e * T. R. Jones<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Misplaced * Hilary Biehl<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Growing, Always Growing * Rick Ansell Pearson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Budget Space-Cruises * Lauren McBride<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Intergalactic Ballad * Alicia Hilton<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[Your arms] * Sarah Cannavo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Salem, Massachusetts: Late Winter 1691 * Patricia Gomes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Proteus Wonders * Devan Barlow<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Quantum Leap With Pepperoni * Alan Ira Gordon<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Afterlife Machine * Alexis Renata<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dispatches from the Dragon\u2019s Den * Mary Soon Lee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Medusa Love * Jacqueline West<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Hard Knock Post-Life * Greg Fewer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Time For a Change * Sarah Cannavo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[the mummy] * David C. 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