{"id":9812,"date":"2025-11-08T18:46:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T18:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/?page_id=9812"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:26:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:26:39","slug":"starline-45-2-spring-2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/starline\/starline-45-2-spring-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Star*Line 45.2 (Spring 2022)"},"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\/45.2.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of Star*Line 45.2 showing a foursome of towering weird figures against a dramatic sky \" class=\"wp-image-8528 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/45.2.jpg 288w, https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/45.2-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Cover<\/strong>: <em>Greetings<\/em> \u00a9 Barbara Candiotti<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\">All go somewhere by Richard Magahiz<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#second\">In Other Months by Lora Gray<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#third\">Eating Breakfast Pizza with an Allergy by Tony Daly<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#fourth\">The Valley of Kings by Salik Shah<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#fifth\" data-type=\"internal\" data-id=\"#fifth\">Poltergeist by Rhonda Parrish<\/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>: Hopes &amp; Dreams<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Lately I\u2019ve been lucky enough to have good news arrive, and the occasional dream come true. As is often the case the good news arrives alongside strife, hardship, and much sadness amongst many of those I care about, and those I have not yet had the pleasure to meet. Life is filled with these types of dualities, and while these juxtapositions can often feel cruel, they are also the essence of the dynamics of life. Poetry is one of those artforms that excels at expressing these dualities, and I thank all you speculative poets of the world for the opportunity to share your visions, your joys, and your pains. Personally, one can use poetry as a method of healing, but on a grander scale we are sharing stories of empathy with one another. These stories combine to form&nbsp;<em>our<\/em>&nbsp;story, on a greater cosmological scale, the ever-forming mythos of&nbsp;<em>our<\/em>&nbsp;people. Ever since the first emotion was sung, we have shared our feelings, dreams, hopes, and despairs in this way. Each and every one of your stories is relevant, important, and a piece of the history of our species. May they grow into the dreams and realities of those yet born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And congratulations to all of this year\u2019s Rhysling candidates! In our 45th year of the SFPA we have a record number of nominees, as well as the largest membership in our history, all of which indicates to me that speculative poetry is thriving all over the world. It\u2019s wonderful!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is also my pleasure to share the great news that moving forward we will be raising our rates for poetry to 4 cents a word.<\/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;All go somewhere&#8221; by Richard Magahiz<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The time has come to speak about the next stage we reach<br>either by chance or by plans no one has yet made out, we only know<br>we all go somewhere in this material universe we know as home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your true mother\u2019s face is unshaved, brooding over basaltic depths.<br>Your uncle clings to the lip of a rock pool alongside<br>twenty thousand of his kind, none of the others previously Terran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tall girl you knew in high school with the braid down her back<br>pumps ferrofluids to dizzyingly branched extremities,<br>though she is a young sapling, and still learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The old guy upstairs you haven\u2019t seen since New Year\u2019s day<br>is a polyp in a dwarf galaxy our instruments cannot make out.<br>Elvis is one too but they haven\u2019t met yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wife of the general vaporized by one of our drone strikes<br>has become fragrantly luminous, tripartite, free from pain.<br>Her husband clings to life and cannot say the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re not allowed to know where any of<br>the right whales and orangutans have gone off to,<br>and you shouldn\u2019t ask about the springer spaniels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been a long time since any humans have turned up<br>in this patch of space again and by now<br>all of the ones who have are far away now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When they tell you that you can\u2019t take it with you,<br>they don\u2019t mention the scent of hexapods roasted by flare star light,<br>or the ingenious scuttling sedans which eat gravity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while there is eternal punishment somewhere,<br>one does not really need to fear unquenchable fire.<br>There are other colorful ways to balance the books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I tell you this not so you should go spread the word,<br>which wouldn\u2019t make one bit of difference to a single soul,<br>but just hope to encourage quiet reflection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those of us who know a thing or ten thousand,<br>who also lie in the dark thinking of trillions of stars,<br>really prefer an indefensible black silence.<\/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;In Other Months,&#8221; by Lora Gray<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In other months, I\u2019d watch for transports<br>on the launch pad beyond the ridge<br>and I\u2019d imagine a bloom of silver ships,<br>innumerable as wildflowers,<br>spiked skyward and preparing to launch.<br>I\u2019d brave air raid sirens to look for them,<br>certain their appearance,<br>just beyond our once-secure camp,<br>with its families and interplanetary refugees<br>huddled in tents and flimsy \u2018temporary\u2019 huts,<br>would mean an off-world ticket<br>and safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other months, I\u2019d believe<br>the magistrates<br>when they say, \u201cWait.<br>Be patient.<br>Your turn is coming soon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other months, I\u2019d close my eyes<br>and that flash would be a camera, a passport photo,<br>not a bomb,<br>that burning smell would be rocket fuel,<br>not human hair,<br>that roar would be a shuttle,<br>not the neighbor\u2019s baby,<br>radiation-sick and wailing,<br>her flesh pulling away<br>as if it, too, wants to escape<br>but doesn\u2019t<br>quite<br>have the money<br>or means<br>for a legal departure.<\/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;Eating Breakfast Pizza with an Allergy,&#8221; by Tony Daly<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Battle started before hanger doors closed,<br>a full-scale, planet-wide invasion<br>of the sinus cavity: walls inflamed,<br>irritated, deployed defenses<br>of mucus shielding,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sent alarms via<br>integrated communication system<br>of neural interface web:<br>visual receptors watered and reddened,<br>pain throbbed at central dispatch,<br>was audibly identifiable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foreign debris subsequently ejected<br>from hanger, but too late,<br>damage was done<br>to entire planetary infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For several lunar cycles,<br>tremors were felt,<br>causing floods and gas line leaks,<br>transport of consumer products restricted,<br>more strict regulations<br>on cargo inspection implemented,<br>transportation routes disrupted,<br>societal interactions altered indefinitely.<\/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;The Valley of Kings,&#8221; by Salik Shah<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><em>Our wars\u2014<\/em><br>the young prince thought<br>and envied the long-dead<br>ancestor no longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He wanted neither the delicious<br>privilege of creation<br>\u2014the architect\u2019s responsibilities<br>and burdens\u2014<br>nor the sulfurous breath of death,<br>sometimes a face,<br>sometimes an entire nation<br>to focus their hatred upon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAmong every intelligent being,<br>there are seeds of destruction,<br>a handful of tyrants in every spry<br>corners of the universe,\u201d<br>the apparition said.<br>\u201cWe forgive your ignorance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur wars\u2014\u201d<br>the young prince started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGive us your hatred; give us your despair,\u201d<br>the apparition was now saying.<br>\u201cWe shall take them and only then,<br>you can get rid of our heirloom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur wars destroyed us!\u201d<br>the young prince now<br>bellowed and howled,<br>shattering the bloodsword,<br>its deafening rumble echoed<br>through the valley of kings,<br>where the records of their<br>violent age were etched<br>in ruins of stones<br>and precious metals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the young prince walked away<br>from the treasures of the fallen<br>through the Gate of Oblivion,<br>the apparition gathered<br>the shards of their once-<br>great investment,<br>and closed their eyes<br>to resume their sleep,<br>but they found<br>they couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prince\u2019s words troubled<br>the tomb\u2019s forgotten resident,<br>reawakening long-buried<br>memories of a time past,<br>a loss beyond words:<br>Our wars destroyed us.<\/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;Poltergeist,&#8221; by Rhonda Parrish<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">at her graveside service we huddled<br>around a hole which seemed far<br>far too small for her<br>too small to contain her contagious laugh<br>her giant spirit of generosity<br>or her tornado of a temper<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the grass, dead and brown crinkled<br>beneath my feet as I shifted one to the other<br>over and over<br>while the silence spread on and on<br>after the preacher asked if anyone wanted<br>to speak<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but I knew\u2014my whole family<br>staring down at our hands, at the ground knew\u2014<br>we\u2019d speak to her tonight<br>as we had every night since she\u2019d passed<br>trying to coax her to the light or<br>at the very least<br>get her to stop breaking the dishes<br>as she raged against the unfairness of it all.<\/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>Bryan Thao Worra<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>From the Small Press *&nbsp;<em>Herb Kauderer, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, John Reinhart, Lisa Timpf<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stealth SF * \u201cThis Is Not the End of the World\u201d *\u00a0<em>Denise Dumars<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Xenopoetry * \u00a1Muerta! (Dead!) * <em>Josefina Pelliza de Sagasta, translated by Brittany Hause<\/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>Rabbits Watching the Fire Rise<\/em>\u00a0* R. Mac Jones<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>prescience<\/em>\u00a0* Blaize Kelly Strothers<\/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>All go somewhere * Richard Magahiz<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Natural Selection * Andy Dibble<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Celestial Life * Jamal Hodge<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If Only * Ian Willey<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Frost Flowers * Meg Smith<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hibertransformation * John Reinhart<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vintage Science Fiction * Mary Soon Lee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Abaddon * Robert L. Jones III<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thermoplastic * Colleen Anderson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[wormhole gloves] * Stephen C. Curro<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[science fiction blues] * Gabriel Smithwilson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a world runs over * Brian Hugenbruch<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Orpheus Channel * Amelia Gorman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>{FileName:3P4_P61_Terminal} * Nicole Bloomfield<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[a portrait of the] * ayaz daryl nielsen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Hanged Man Makes Bread * Sandra Lindow<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sweet William * Vanessa Jae<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Keeping the Traditions * David C. Kopaska-Merkel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>golem * Marisca Pichette<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Harvesting the Future * Pedro Iniguez<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pittsburg Temporal Transfer Station * Alan Ira Gordon<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[asking the 8 ball] * dl mattila<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[come anytime] * LeRoy Gorman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Three Modern Roses * Lorraine Schein<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Earthlings Among Us * Michael McCormick<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[breaking news] * Ngo Binh Anh Khoa<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[we don\u2019t celebrate] * David C. Kopaska-Merkel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In Other Months * Lora Gray<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[cries of disbelief ] * Stephen C. Curro<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ode to V\u2019ger * Francene Kaplan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Forget That * Beth Cato<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Caught You * Gerri Leen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Launchpad * Benjamin Whitney Norris<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A Conspiracy of Smiles * Josh Pearce<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If I Were Human * Marie Vibbert<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[sting] * Karl Lykken<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sensitivity to Light * Gerri Leen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[the universe] * Greer Woodward<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bright and Breezy * Harris Coverley<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Starbeing * Caroline Reddy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Light Mine * F. J. Bergmann<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Illumination * PS Cottier<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You, Too, Can Read Minds * Lauren McBride<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Speculations * Anna Cates<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The First 100 Days * John Reinhart<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[remembering] * Joshua St. Claire<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fretful Satellite * Gerri Leen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thanks for Nothing * Randall Andrews<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>First rule of space travel * Eva Papasoulioti<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[wishing] * Barun Saha<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Killer Kudzu * DJ Tyrer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seeing-holes * Marisca Pichette<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Godzilla vs. the Crushing Weight of Free Will * Henry Kneiszel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eating Breakfast Pizza with an Allergy * Tony Daly<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[underwater vocalists] * T. R. Jones<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ice Queen\u2019s Germination * Christine Butterworth-McDermot<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[parallel world woe] * LeRoy Gorman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Valley of Kings * Salik Shah<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Microcosms * Deborah L. Davitt<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Slue-Foot Sue Sets the Record Straight * Brittany Hause<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mainship\u2014Be Advised * Lauren McBride<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kindly Stopped for Me * Avra Margariti<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[star freighter] * D.A. Xiaolin Spires<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Giving In * Debby Feo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tough Love * Herb Kauderer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Arrogance * Debby Fe<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Poltergeist * Rhonda Parrish<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[libs love zombies] * Gary W. Davis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Six-Strand Challah * Mariel Herbert<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Ghost Festival * Ngo Binh Anh Khoa<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Petrified * Jason P. Burnham<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[silently it came] * Lucien Reinhart<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cover: Greetings \u00a9 Barbara CandiottiEditor: Jean-Paul L. GarnierLayout: F. J. BergmannProduction Manager: F. J. BergmannMailing: Brian U. 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