Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• 9 • Foreword: The Poetic Audience • essay by Orson Scott Card
• 19 • When the Dreamer of Worlds Awakes • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 23 • I Wander the Cosmos, Inventing It • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 25 • Because I Would Not Stop for Death • (1992) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 27 • The Last Pastoral • (1985) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 31 • The Boneyard of Old Ezra Snow • (1995) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 38 • The Program • (1991) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 41 • Retrogradation • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 43 • Such Things as Worlds • (1992) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 44 • The Galactic Ambassador • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 45 • Renascence • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 46 • Invert Logic • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 47 • Orion Disappeared Last Night • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 48 • Colony • (1988) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 49 • Elegy for an Asteroid Miner • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 51 • Spatio-Temporal Spectacles • (1993) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 53 • Hesperios • (1993) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 54 • Confutatis • (1996) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 56 • Love Among the Stars • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 57 • When the Conquerors Came • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 59 • Alien Metamorphosis • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 60 • Evolution • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 61 • Exile on a Left-Hand World • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 63 • A Lesson in Manners • (1984) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 64 • My Dog Is Sitting in a Tree • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 65 • Aboriginals' Escape • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 66 • Spiral Galaxy (I and II) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 67 • Inventing a Galaxy • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 68 • Far Across the Galaxy • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 69 • The Missionary's Return • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 71 • The Legend of Kometes • (1993) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 74 • Fifth Movement...and Final • poem by Michael R. Collings (variant of Fifth Movement and Final 1982)
• 75 • 10 33 [note: 33 is superscripted after 10] • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 77 • StarSong • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 79 • MoonMasks • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 80 • StarHeart • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 81 • Black Hole • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 82 • Cosmology • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 83 • Celestial Dance • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 84 • It's Long Past Tune-up Time Again • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 86 • SciFi-ku • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 91 • The Passing of Arthur: An Epyllion • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 93 • A Visitation of Grace • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 95 • "Stretched Naked on His Bed, a Second Danaë" • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 97 • The Survivors to Their Heirs • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 98 • Roc • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 99 • Medusa • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 100 • Eurydice • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 101 • Myrmidon • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 102 • Restrictions • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 104 • Sabrina • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 107 • Is Death • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 108 • The Dweller on the Edge of Day • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 109 • "Night's Plutonian Shore" • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 110 • In the House Beyond the Field • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 112 • The Haunted Valley • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 113 • Black Crocuses • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 114 • It Waits for Me • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 116 • Vigil • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 117 • The Grave • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 119 • Grey • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 120 • Contagion • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 121 • Vampire • (1989) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 123 • Visitor by Starlight • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 124 • The Wandering UnDead • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 126 • After First Blooding • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 127 • Before the Throat in Nakedness • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 128 • Soliloquy in Onyx • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 129 • At Midnight • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 131 • Lamia • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 132 • 2:30 A • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 134 • The Damnation of the Dawn • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 136 • The Vampire's Daymare • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 137 • Inchantation • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 138 • A Visit from Grandma • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 140 • Lupus-Luna • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 141 • Wiros • (1985) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 143 • Sleep...Sleep • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 144 • Forsaken • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 145 • A Short Poem on a Bubo Virginianis • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 146 • Trick or Treat • (1990) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 148 • Blackbird Fall • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 149 • Where the White Crow Flies • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 150 • Harvest Crows • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 151 • Cormorant • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 152 • Sasquatch • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 153 • *Blothisojan • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 154 • Horror-ku • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 157 • The Last Pastoral (Klingon Translation) • poem by Alan Anderson (poet) and Robyn Stewart