F.J. Bergmann is the editor of Star*Line, the journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and the poetry editor of Mobius: The Journal of Social Change and imagines tragedies on exoplanets.
I do prefer an orphan, whose demise
is rarely noted. Far from nymphomania,
I've had no more than twelve since coming here;
less...
I look out onto a landscape that could have been
formed by a glittering gas, heavier than air,
hissing out of the shower head...
Their hives were castles of yellow sulfur;
their language, a barrage of white noise.
Even their house pets had wheeled feet
or...
