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eBook Category: Science Fiction Bram Stoker Award Recommendation, Rhysling Award Winner, Asimov's Reader's Choice Award Winner
eBook Description: Fifty-nine of the best poems by the first Grand Master chosen by the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Reprinted from the pages of Asimov's SF, Amazing Stories, Aboriginal SF, Weird Tales, the Nebula Awards anthology, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and other leading genre publications. This collection includes four Rhysling winners and two Asimov Readers Award winners and one Aboriginal SF Boomerang Award winner. Introduction by t. winter-damon. [NOTE: 5 of the 59 poems also appear in The Complete Accursed Wives, also available at Fictionwise.com]

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Signed limited edition trade paper from Dark Regions Press, September 1995, 1995
Fictionwise Release Date: August 2002

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Words: 11659
Reading time: 33-46 min.
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Microsoft Reader ISBN: 1-59062-445-9

"...the greatest living science fiction poet."--Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Red Mars

"The language leaps ... images flash ... irresistibly powerful language ... piercingly intelligent."--Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game

OF TIME AND THE SIDEREAL SHORE

Time and again
I have known the moment
that is ever spawned
in the onrushing change
of dark to dawn

and down again.
I have seen it light
upon the breakers
and dash against the sky.
I have watched it curl

along the dunes,
elongate and limpid,
slippery as a skin of oil.
As petals flare
against the foliage

and the sea cliffs
rise about me,
tier upon staggered tier
studded with greenery,
a vertical prairie

of succulents
living from the rock itself,
how the seconds tremble,
how the light
runs to slaughter

in the swerve and bend
of gravity's calling,
how the star-streaked waves
contain the night
and all of space beyond.