Archive for Speculative

1. (UNTITLED SPECULATIVE HAIKU) • by Greg Schwartz 8 Comments

   green pasture
   zombie cows graze
   on the farmer
   Greg Schwartz is the staff cartoonist for SP Quill Magazine and a member of the Haiku Society of America. Some of his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, New York Quarterly, and the 2008 Red Moon Anthology. Spec House of Poetry has just released a broadside [...]

   Japanese Short Forms, Poems, Speculative
   
   

2. INTELLIGENT LIFE • by Greg Schwartz 11 Comments

   aliens orbit
   a blue-green planet
   watch its creatures wage
   war after war
   eventually
   they move on
   still in search
   of intelligent life.
   Greg Schwartz is the staff cartoonist for SP Quill Magazine and a member of the Haiku Society of America. Some of his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, New York Quarterly, and the 2008 Red Moon Anthology. [...]

   Poems, Speculative
   
   

3. GREY GOO • by Jonathan Pinnock 13 Comments

   “Grey
   goo
   is such
   a far-fetched
   and absurd notion,”
   said the nanotechnologist,
   staring down at the bubbling floor
   and wondering what
   had happened
   to both
   his
   feet.
   Jonathan Pinnock was born in Bedfordshire, England, and despite having so far visited over forty other countries, has failed to relocate any further away than the next door county of Hertfordshire. He is married with two children and a 1961 Ami [...]

   Humour/Satire, Poems, Speculative
   
   

4. UNLOCKING THE GALAXY • by by Aurelio Rico Lopez III 3 Comments

   A Martian craft banks left,
   narrowly avoiding the speeding meteor
   set off course by planetary gravitational pull.
   A fleet of flying saucers
   barrel roll along the rings of Saturn while
   alien youngsters fly kites
   on the stormy winds of Jupiter’s hurricanes.
   Back on Earth, behind a telescope lens –
   a Christmas gift from his dad –
   a little child
   up way past his bedtime,
   yawns and [...]

   Poems, Speculative