spring sunrise alien buds unfold under a UV lamp telepathic sages praise the verdant day which mindset will go best with new baseball cap? mating dance of the spybot insects her aura color clearly tells she came to say good bye! hunting in Triangulum for a new home planet then the blood moon was branded with a coca-cola ad armalcolite scarecrow in the cell culture lab face to face with a row of clones in the identity parade isolation zone guard beatboxing to himself my jetcar slows as the fusion reactor blows a valve just woken from the stillness of the cryo-dream Participating poets Roman Lyakhovetsky: verses 1 (hokku), 3 (daisan), 5, 11 Elizabeth McFarland: verses 2, 4, 7, 9,12 (ageku) Raamesh Gowri Raghavan: verses 6, 8, 10 Scheme jo (verses 1-3), ha (verses 4-8), kyu (verses 9-12) Tomegaki by Roman The great Edgar Allan Poe once wrote: "A poem in my opinion is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object pleasure, not truth.” Sci-fi themed poetr...