Joanne Merriam › Fructify was one of those, a word imported from better times. When Mario Cuomo was the governor of New York State, he’d used it in a conversation with the former Senator Patrick Moynihan. She’d been driving somewhere, too stoned to follow the context, when the word blazed out of the radio. She was surprised a politician had the courage to use it. But that was a long time ago, when the public would tolerate unusual language.

The 2009 Rhysling Awards are now open to nominations from SFPA members. My eligible poems (all for the short poem category) this year are: “Werepenguin.” Strange Horizons, 10 March 2008. “Venusian Girls Are Better.” Coyote Wild. January 2008 Vol 2 Issue 1. “The Aviary.” Chizine, Issue #35 (January – March 2008). I’m fond of these [...]

I’m sick/of him throwing deep-thinking/genius men up at me.

He almost pitied them, those buried/with no fare

He clung to your luck, and kept it/ For two more years.

The night we sprayed NEGROPHOBIA all over the statue of Robert E. Lee

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