{"id":9829,"date":"2025-11-11T17:31:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/?page_id=9829"},"modified":"2025-12-19T20:13:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:13:49","slug":"starline-44-1-winter-2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/starline\/starline-44-1-winter-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Star*Line 44.1 (Winter 2021)"},"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\/44.1.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of Star*Line 44.1 showing a traveler reaching a pass between two angular peaks\" class=\"wp-image-8513 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/44.1.jpg 288w, https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/44.1-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Cover<\/strong>: <em>River Pass<\/em> \u00a9 Michal Kv\u00e1c<br><strong>Editor<\/strong>: Melanie Stormm<br><strong>Layout<\/strong>: F. 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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\">Reasons to Leave the Path by Jacqueline West<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#second\" data-type=\"internal\" data-id=\"#second\">What Aliens Read by Mary Soon Lee<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#third\">[winter on old earth] by Herb Kauderer<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#fourth\">Alpha\/Beta\/Centauri by Scott Wiggerman<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#fifth\">Appropriate Language by Andy Dibble<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#sixth\" data-type=\"internal\" data-id=\"#fifth\">mansplainer by Beth Cato<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#seventh\">Civilization by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#eighth\">The Last Ones In by Holly Day<\/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>: Light at the End of the World<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>A New Era dawns once more! We are to be made redundant, again\u2014but it was fun while it lasted. Jean-Paul Garnier has agreed to become the next Star*Line editor. From Joshua Tree, California, he owns Space Cowboy Books, a science-fiction bookstore, independent publisher, and producer of Simultaneous Times podcast. He has released several poetry collections: In Iudicio (Cholla Needles Press 2017), Future Anthropology (currently being translated into Portuguese), and Odes to Scientists (audiobook\u2014Space Cowboy Books 2019). He is a two-time Elgin nominee and also appeared in the 2020 Dwarf Stars anthology. His new SF poetry book, Betelgeuse Dimming, has just been released. He is a regular contributor for Canada\u2019s Warp Speed Odyssey blog. His short stories, poetry and essays appear in many anthologies and webzines. Jean-Paul will take the helm as of issue 44.3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These poems were our six 2020 Pushcart Prize nominees:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cChronovisor Wanted\u201d by Robert Borski \u2022 <em>Star*Line <\/em>43.1 <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cmecha visits little tokyo\u201d by S. Qiouyi Lu<em> \u2022 Star*Line<\/em> 43.1<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cHow to Advertise Titan\u201d by Mary Soon Lee \u2022 <em>Star*Line <\/em>43.2 <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cBetter Living through Alchemy\u201d by Don Raymond<em> \u2022 Star*Line<\/em> 43.3<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cBaits\u201d by Soonest Nathaniel \u2022 <em>Star*Line <\/em>43.4 <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cA Tempest\u201d by Sheree Ren\u00e9e Thomas<em> \u2022 Star*Line<\/em> 43.4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Our enthusiastic thanks to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.authorspublish.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AuthorsPublish.com<\/a>, who made a generous donation of $150.00 to Star*Line. This is immensely appreciated!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other news, there should be a new, improved U.S. President any day now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inoculate! Inoculate! Inoculate!<\/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;Reasons to Leave the Path,&#8221; by Greg Schwartz<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It might be a storm of fireflies<br>that turn out not to be fireflies at all<br>but ten thousand whirling, winged figures<br>dancing to an inaudible song<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It might be the sight of a cottage<br>nestled deep in a glade of candy trees,<br>spun-sugar fiddleheads, peppermint pines,<br>a walkway of chocolate to a gingerbread gate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or maybe it\u2019s simpler: pale toadstools,<br>crinkled morels, a trail of blossoms<br>that leads to more blossoms,<br>pink to white to yellow to blue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and you can\u2019t help but follow<br>their scent in the air, the glimpse<br>of a lusher patch just ahead, a glade<br>you would like to lie and dream in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you resist, when you put your feet<br>back in the rut that so many others<br>have worn, you hear the voices calling,<br>calling, and tell yourself that it\u2019s the birds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>even though they all know your name.<br>You tell yourself other tales<br>as you walk, of wolves and snares<br>and bride-eating bridegrooms<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of witches with bony hands and deep hearths<br>but none of them are as true as moonlight<br>on petals, or the trail of white breadcrumbs<br>leading you onward toward some dark and open door.<\/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;What Aliens Read,&#8221; by Mary Soon Lee<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Numbers, charts, equations,<br>folded n-space projections,<br>projectile trajectories,<br>probabilistic damage estimates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Past tense. What they read,<br>formerly, there being none<br>extant to examine the errors<br>that led to their extinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports from our veterans,<br>excavation of the ruins,<br>indicate only the essential.<br>Barracks. Factories. Power grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No paintings, no sculpture,<br>no ornaments, no tapestry,<br>no toys, no flowers, no pets,<br>no poetry, no stories, no music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If there was any more than this,<br>if they cradled their offspring,<br>if they sang to praise the dawn,<br>it is buried beneath our victory.<\/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;[winter on old earth],&#8221; by Herb Kauderer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>winter on old earth<br>he walks the ancient city<br>vestigial wings twitch<\/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;Alpha\/Beta\/Centauri,&#8221; by Scott Wiggerman<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Aberrant heaven, an erratic, throbbing orb,<br>cataclysmic casualties light-years divorced,<br>eternities in defiant glances beyond the grief<br>guaranteed our hard-bitten time on this earth.<br>Intervals of luminosity from the edges, a hadj<br>keened through the ink of kohl, the cosmic whorl<br>mucking up dreams and dreads, our vision<br>oppressed as this muddle of finite sky-map.<br>Questions of quiddities, scourge and maker,<br>stillborn as glimpsed pulses long extinct,<br>undulating nonetheless, deplorable improv,<br>wanton mission with the impermanence of wax.<br>Yesteryears, ancient stars, and all that glitz.<\/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;Appropriate Language,&#8221; by Andy Dibble<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">They took to our language and its archaicisms,<br>which no corporation had title to, and its imperatives,<br>which no church had recorded in its litany of curses,<br>and our slang no bureau had declared politically incorrect.<br>The verbosity of our questions (our superfluous \u201cDo\u2026?\u201d)<br>amused their children, who thought us splendidly proper<br>in our diplomatic regalia, which permitted no air exchange<br>(lest our past-time pathogens infect them or theirs infect us).<br>Previously they relied upon a jigsaw of patois and pantomime<br>and idioms designed even more organically than their narcotics<br>to evade the pitfalls of licensing fees, jailtime, and damnation,<br>which recombined with the shrewdness of an immune response,<br>ingesting our fashionable phrasing as loan words and ritual shouts.<br>Our languages so commingled, we were declared honorary citizens,<br>endowed with the same privileges and subject to the same penalties.<\/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;mansplainer,&#8221; by Beth Cato<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>thank you for your astute<br>observations on my field<br>of expertise<br>a subject that you understand well<br>after seeing a talk<br>about it on the news several months ago<br>but I assure you<br>necromancy can indeed be wielded<br>against the living<br>with impressive results<br>I will demonstrate<\/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=\"seventh\">&#8220;Civilization,&#8221; by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For my homeland, civilization meant a thousand battleships<br>&amp; countless war bots, shooting randomly at my brothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It meant an erasure of our past &amp; history,<br>Our chiefs slaughtered &amp; left for the vultures\u2014they were replaced<br>by emotionless overlords made of plated chrome. Our origin<br>has been forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Civilization meant a microchip embedded in our brains\u2014to control,<br>suppress, track, terminate. We became puppets on strings<br>pulled by crazed robots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For my homeland, civilization meant we surrendered our lives<br>&amp; all the things we never had, to the overlords. Even our lives<br>don\u2019t belong to us anymore\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are civilized now &amp; have become familiar with depression.<\/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=\"eighth\">&#8220;The Last Ones In,&#8221; by Holly Day<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Destined to be the archaeologists<br>of the universe, we came to the game<br>too late, the last planet<br>to launch our people into space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only galaxies of ruin<br>await us, galleries filled with soot<br>a glittering history of art and music<br>we won\u2019t be able to understand at all<br>books filled with languages<br>we won\u2019t ever learn to read<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>empty rooms<br>that might be filled with light and noise<br>if we only knew what an \u201con\u201d switch looked like<br>in accordance with each planet,<br>each decimated species,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>there will be no manuals left to show us<br>how anything works.<\/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>F. J. Bergmann<\/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>David E. Cowen, Daniel G. Fitch, Joshua Gage, Herb Kauderer, John C. Mannone, Lisa Timpf<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Writing Spec Po * A Beginner\u2019s Guide to Scifaiku *&nbsp;<em><em>Joshua Gage<\/em><\/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>broadcast received<\/em>&nbsp;* Casey Coolidge<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>man\u2019s hand is not able to taste<\/em>&nbsp;* Casey Coolidge<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>you\u2019ll never amount to anything<\/em>&nbsp;* Casey Coolidge<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>I will scourge you with scorpions<\/em>&nbsp;* Casey Coolidge<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>the space between the stars<\/em>&nbsp;* Casey Coolidge<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>archimedes septimus shrimp<\/em>&nbsp;* Casey Coolidge<\/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>Reasons to Leave the Path * Jacqueline West<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[silently] * ayaz daryl nielsen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[two minutes] * Richard Magahiz<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do Not Pet the Ray Cats When They\u2019re Glowing * Avra Margariti<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What Aliens Read * Mary Soon Lee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There Goes the Security Deposit * Sarah Cannavo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[daybreak] * Stephen C. Curro<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Unhomed * Lisa Creech Bledsoe<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[under a dim sun] * David C. Kopaska-Merkel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Odile * MJ Millington<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chaos Looming * Gerri Leen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What I\u2019ve Learned\u2026 * Sarah Cannavo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[Venusian sword-dance] * Joshua Hiles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A Record of Starvation \u2026 * Hayley Stone<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Matters of Scale * David C. Kopaska-Merkel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Red Planet * Mary Soon Lee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Old Masters * David Barber<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[at the British Museum] * Matthew Wilson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shore Leave * David Barber<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Advent * Mary Soon Lee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[winter on old earth] * Herb Kauderer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Emotional Help Desk Open Tickets * Jessy Randall<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[unsupervised] * Stephen C. Curro<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dollies * Beth Cato<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[truck bed] * Greg Schwartz<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[red dwarf: offensive term] * Matthew Wilson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>hatched this way * Lauren McBride<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[our baby\u2019s first cry] * Ngo Binh Anh Khoa<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alpha\/Beta\/Centauri * Scott Wiggerman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A World Without Speech * Debasish Mishra<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[telepathic sex] * LeRoy Gorman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Two Days and Counting * Lauren McBride<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[anniversary] * David C. Kopaska-Merkel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Werecities * Amelia Gorman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[the sympath] * Susan Burch<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sasquatch Burial Ground * Raven Jakubowski<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Surpassing Photography * J. J. Steinfeld<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[dust spurts] * David C. Kopaska-Merkel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Medusa Itinerant * Meg Smith<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>By Moonlight * Lauren McBride<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Appropriate Language * Andy Dibble<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>* * Simon Perchik<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[red-giant Sun] * David C. Kopaska-Merkel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New Uses for Old Staves * Amelia Gorman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[the Altairian\u2019s fridge] * David C. Kopaska-Merkel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Via Dolorosa * David Gianatasio<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alien Craft Lands in Everglades * John Grey<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Life on the Low Road * Robert Frazier<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Azure Captain * Shelly Jones<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[what they left behind] * Richard Magahiz<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[setting sun] * Greg Schwartz<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>mansplainer * Beth Cato<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[I wonder if aliens] * Marcus Vance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>City of Resolve * Ken Poyner<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[left my late father\u2019s] * David C. Kopaska-Merkel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the nearest station * Robin Wyatt Dunn<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[staring into stars] * Joshua Hiles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Closer Than You Think * David C. Kopaska-Merkel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[breaking through the lid] * David C. Kopaska-Merkel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[obituaries] * Juan Perez<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[damn the plasma torpedos] * Stephen C. Curro<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jupiter LXVII * Patrick Hurley<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vineyard before dawn * Brian Hugenbruch<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[late for school] * Matthew Wilson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Swim Test * Marsheila Rockwell<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[centaur] * Jerome Van Epps<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lines for Naughty Children * Matthew Wilson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blood Lust * Gerri Leen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vampire Selfies * Alan Ira Gordon<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>nanomorph * Koji A. Dae<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reflections on Narcissus * Paul Szlosek<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Civilization * Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[all this rain] * Christina Sng<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[Earth fills the window] * Stephen C. Curro<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Person of Interest * David C. Kopaska-Merkel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201c\u2014And They All Lived Together\u2014\u201d * Andrew J. Wilson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kong * Bruce McAllister<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Warrior Over Washington * Adam Ford<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Checkmate 2035 * David Gianatasio<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sylvan Succubus * Joshua Gage<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To \u2019Oumuamua * Ann K. Schwader<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[blood moon] * LeRoy Gorman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>marry me * S. R. 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