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Two more sf poems by Keith Allen Daniels from rece
Two more sf poems by Keith Allen Daniels from recent issues of Asimov's SF:
AT THE PET SHOP
The iceworm was cold and sinuous
and Yuli wanted one for his own
despite the possibility of frostbites.
I said no the cryogenic upkeep
is astronomical and we moved on.
There was a crystal thing that sang
in a clear cubicle as we approached.
Piezoelectric I said it can't be alive
but Yuli tapped the wall of the cube
and the crystal became liquescent
and flowed to his fingertips
like a macroscopic amoeba.
It crystallized and sang again, a chorus
of mechanical crickets. But the price
was out of this world and we moved on.
We tried to ignore the scrannel cries
of the harpies from Alcor
and the stench of bromine vapor
from a thing that burped incessantly,
but even Yuli was getting jumpy.
We settled for a mynah bird from Terra
that Yuli had read about.
They're incredible mimics and polyglots
he told me but I was a bit skeptical.
Imagine my surprise when the damned thing
began repeating Yuli's nonsense phrases
in perfect Pangalactic!
-- from ASIMOV'S SF, February 1994
Copyright (C) 1994 by Keith Allen Daniels
MEMORIAL
dead rockets
loom like cromlechs
in the forest
graffiti carved
in weathered plastics
tell tales of life
in the postlude days
the sun's the color
of sunset at noon
and the moon looks trampled
by the feet of giant elephants
boys and girls
made love in the capsules
now filled with droppings
and the breeze that sways the trees
grown taller than the rockets
-- from ASIMOV'S SF, October 1994
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