all doors
and my wife's broken heart
she-locked ...
I ride the light beam
to a remote sky house
Chen-ou Liu
A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.”
-- Theodore Sturgeon
In the universe of sci-fi short form poetry, sci-fi haiku, also known as scifaiku (see "To the Lighthouse: Scifaiku"), have received more attention than sci-fi tanka. To even the playing field, I've selected the following tanka, which explore the potential consequences of scientific, sociocultural, and technological innovations, for your reading pleasure:
blue-fingered dawn
reaches over biodome park --
nanobot pollinators
flit, harvest, dance
in one-third g
Patricia Larash
spring deepens --
within its swollen belly
a planet rumbles,
ready to cut
the third moon’s birth cord
Norman Darlington
weaving
threads of starlight
in my shawl
the weight of ancestors
wrapped around me
Dru Philippou
event horizon
looms on the port side
I synch the chips
to recompose myself
on the other side
Peggy Hale Bilbro
a flying saucer
crash-landed in a field
in America
somewhere in a locked vault
the remains of aliens
Patricia Prime
the Martian cop
throws cluster f-bombs ...
greenfaced, he shouts
nothing more provocative
than a human in uniform
Chen-ou Liu
the last earthling
frozen some six thousand years
now on display
here on Centaurus Seven
in the lower primate zoo
William Kerr
Happy Reading
Chen-ou
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