SCIENCE-POETRY FICTIONSCIENCE: AN SF POEM FOR SF-POETS
Or: Contemporary Blank Verse

SELF-reflexive metaPOEMs for WRITERs [and the future] who see poetry's READERs as POETs themSELVEs vacuum-packed POEMs and WRITTEN render the READING writing [and the future] loops back to

SCREEN SAVER

writers block
waiting
the keyboard
suckles fingertips
through the letters of a language
for battery-life
while stars
mesmerize
the algorhythm
of infinite ideas

in the pinprick pixel a spacewalker's windowpane helmet cracks/implodes and the
vacuum sucks self through facemask, yanking the entire crew's life support system
through the umbilicus of the mothership's belly like a badly-made sausage still attached
to the pig and in that millisecond of reflection through spiderwebbed glass screen he
knows he can break through he knows he can touch the stars and the way out -- the way
to do it -- is in is in is in the lyrics of an SF Poem he read in the space station's
historical library going back inside going back in time going back to Earth going home 

										a silent pop
 and unmanned the ship discovers an undreamed-of
means of propulsion
as it hurtles pink into atmosphere 
 
										and evaporates
showering Houston
with the smell of swine 

						I
				dream		sleep 		wake
		up				things				outside
						my mind
						scans well


						- Michael A. Arnzen

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