he's so special

home for holidays

stowing Cuz's chlorine tank

always a problem

and a parson in a pear tree

in goblingarten

little Thak learned to count

"Three elf heads!"

no two alike

water crystals
formed slowly in the melt
meter-scale snowflakes

a seasonal thought

The trouble with travelling close
to light speed:
soon you have to celebrate Xmas
every few minutes.
Where are you going
to find all those presents
in a closed ecology?
And Chanukah?
Forget 8 days worth of oil:
What about
3600 years worth
of candles?

My comments on Avatar

http://dreamnnightmare.livejournal.com/101357.html

bout a million

you failed again to
sum up your life accurately
hire some monkeys

Easter looms

Midnight, the ghostly avian form coalesces

Chocolate bunnies
sacrificed to the
peeps of the Monolith

a spirit of the season

The Age of Lost Wonder

these are not the toys you seek,
Obi Grinchobi said;
the kinderfolk wept,
disappointment ruled the planets,
and longing steered the stars.

they always find some

click for a free
alien inspection
you got Venusians Ma'am

still autumn here

the leaves call
and the yard man answers
a child jumps

new sf flash

making people (not the title), new story http://www.dailycabal.com/

It's a pome!

New collaboration w Kendall Evans http://www.silverblade.net/issue5/moons-of-saturn.html

lit'ry haiku

thrill to the one hand
t'other has no clue what
the first is doing







ok, I lied.

plume

the dome loses
water each time the lock cycles
wet spot on Mars

arf

if that dog don't stop
barking I will let it out
Rover on Ceres

Burning with a Vision on sale

Famous SF poetry antho too cheap to pass up

http://dreamnnightmare.livejournal.com/100214.html

true story

Christmas morning
her favorite toy was free
with purchase

dn 85

In proof. Anyone want a pdf to review?

a toast!

Electrons flow for you

I remember Man
the Archivist said with raised glass
the Flock chirped “we too”
each Extinctiversary
a time to play old thoughts

Carrington event

glob of plasma
strikes Earth Labor Day weekend
Worldcon goes dark






http://www.ntia.doc.gov/broadbandgrants/comments/7927.pdf

geology scifaiku

fissile folk
the Shaal envoy bumped its head
and split

6,000,000,000--pick up the pace

They Call Him The Streak

There was an old elf at the Pole
whose job was excessively droll
he snoozed all the year
while his slaves made us gear
which he brought in one night at a stroll

DN 85 contents

Dreams & Nightmares 85

January 2010

Contents

Subscriptions $25/6 issues (2 years)

Randy Moore, cover
Allen Koszowski, illo
W Gregory Stewart, Practice makes
Robert E. Porter, Grigris
Deborah Walker, The problem with the aliens...
Wade German, Overheard at a wharf-side tavern
Robert Borski, Wormwood
Guy Beining, illo
Bruce Boston, Death of a Changeling
R. H. Fay, illo
Ian Hunter, The golem's touch
Randy Moore, illo
Rich Magahiz, 13 ways of looking at a balrog
Randy Moore, illo
John Johnson, from "The mind is Satan's lawyer"
F J Bergmann, Year of time
Adrienne J. Odasso, The ghosts of Moody St.

DN 85

sent to printer

DN 85

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impermanence

the tower shakes
each new wave shouts
welcome to the sea

wakey wakey

new to the system
a honeycombed world warms up
yawns and stretches

ghost tanka

Good luck passing inspection

shades develop
like Polaroid prints
cold hands rubbing
every heat source wreathed in wraiths
where did we pick this up

new story

http://www.dailycabal.com/2009/12/declaration/ -- a man of letters

The Mirror Place

spirits reflected

and rereflected

through convolutions of worlds

soul shards hunt

the Wizard's sleeping mind.

his idea of a yolk

cutting the cheese
cake at Gramp's 100th birthday
limburger

tanka

Detente

detente among
the hordes living on my skin
belly and flank
bacteria divide lebensraum
no microblitzkrieg planned

for now

shell by shell dying

plankton blanket the sea floor

Godzilla sleeps


assu

self-reference

500th post
so many scifaiku
tumble in the stream

the zombie channel

couldn't kill 'em
so we dumped the zombies
into another dimension
then people started
disappearing
turned out we made a portal
to the past by mistake
we're all zombies now

house to house

pulled one loose thread my
house of cotton unraveled
birds took it all

don't pick

pastel colors wave
in the anemone garden
cold ankle tug

nostalgia

Ah that old thumb-drive smell
nanomemory just not the same

geological sf

http://www.dailycabal.com/2009/12/speaker/

4th world

they used up
fabulous elements
t-shirt all we got