Alphabetically listed.  Same format as Short Fiction

After the Japanese
[10 haiku]
  1. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; pp. 84 - 85

Among the Hominids at Olduvai
[21 lines]
  1. The Anthology of Speculative Poetry #3 (Robert Frazier)
    [Sand Ridge WV: Robert Frazier], 1978; p. 19
  2. Pacific Quarterly Moana (Colin J. Lester)
    [Hamilton, New Zealand: Outrigger Publishers], Vol. 4 No. 3, Jul 1979; p. 301
  3. Blooded on Arachne (MB), Jan 1982; p. 1
  4. Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry (Steve Rasnic Tem)
    • Denver CO: Umbral Press [hc]; Spring 1982
  5. Raumfahrer und Sternzigeuner (MB), Nov 1983, p. 174
  6. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; pp. 29 - 30

An Astronomer Names the Seasons, No. 1
[4 haiku]
  1. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; p. 39

An Astronomer Names the Seasons, No. 2
[24 lines]
  1. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; pp. 40 - 41

Astyage's Dream, Which He Relates to the Magi
[30 lines]
  1. Windows & Mirrors (MB), Aug 1977
  2. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; p. 31

Beads: The Eloquent Lover's Metaphysical Conceit
[24 lines]
  1. Windows & Mirrors (MB), Aug 1977

Between Classes
[19 lines]
  1. Windows & Mirrors (MB), Aug 1977
  2. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; p. 64
  3. The Devil's Wine (Tom Piccirilli)
    • Baltimore MD: Cemetery Dance Publications [hc], Jun 2004; p. 137

Bigotry
[15 lines]
  1. National Forum: Phi Kappa Phi Journal
    [Baton Rouge: Phi Kappa Phi], Vol. 76 #1, Win 1996; p. 48

The Black Volkswagen
(see Three for William Carlos Williams)

Braids of Glass
[14 lines]
  1. The Magazine of Speculative Poetry #14 (Roger Dutcher)
    [Beloit WI: Roger Dutcher], Autumn 1997; p. 3
  2. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; p. 43

Catechism
[36 lines]
  1. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; pp. 55 - 56

Come to My House for Chili: A Rant
[41 lines]
  1. The Devil's Wine (Tom Piccirilli)
    • Baltimore MD: Cemetery Dance Publications [hc], Jun 2004; pp. 139 - 140

Coming Home
[33 lines]
  1. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; pp. 60 - 61

Dead Poet Parable
[32 lines]
  1. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; pp. 44 - 45
  2. Dark Regions & Horror Magazine #13 (Joe Morey, Ken Wisman & Jordan Stoen)
    [Concord CA: Dark Regions Press], Sum 1999; p. 33
  3. The Devil's Wine (Tom Piccirilli)
    • Baltimore MD: Cemetery Dance Publications [hc], Jun 2004; pp. 141 - 142

Definition
[2 lines]
  1. Windows & Mirrors (MB), Aug 1977

Dissertation on the Burial Customs of the Lilliputians
[15 lines]
(see In the Lilliputian Asylum: A Story in Eight Poems and an Interrogation)

An Echo Through the Timepiece
[30 lines]
  1. The Georgia Review (James Colvert)
    [Athens GA: University of Georgia], Vol. XXII No. 4, Winter 1968; p. 515
  2. The Anthology of Speculative Poetry #3 (Robert Frazier)
    [Sand Ridge WV: TASP Press], 1978; p. 18
  3. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; p. 81

Extinction
[48 lines]
  1. Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (Gardner Dozois)
    [New York: Davis Publications], Dec 1991; pp. 82 - 83
  2. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; pp. 76 - 77

Five Owl Poems from a Novel by Michael Bishop

1. "In My Solitary Prowl: An Owl Poem," by Susannah Huckaby, Age 12
2. "Sheik, The Sock-Puppet Owl, Speaks," by Susannah Huckaby, Age 12
3. "Shock, The Sock-Puppet Owl, Also Has Her Say," by Susannah Huckaby, Age 12
4. "An Elegy for Mister Piet the Owl," by Susannah Huckaby, Age 12
5. "An Owl at the Crucifixion," by Susannah Huckaby, Age 12

  1. The Devil's Wine (Tom Piccirilli)
    • Baltimore MD: Cemetery Dance Publications [hc], Jun 2004; pp. 145 - 149

For the Lady of a Physicist
[46 lines]
  1. Black Holes (Jerry Pournelle)
    • London: Orbit 8014 [pb]; Jul 1978; pp. 286 - 288
    • New York: Fawcett Crest 2-3962 [pb]; Apr 1979; pp. 301 - 303
    • [as An die Geliebte eines Physikers] [German translation by Ruthild and Martin Rabius]
      Köln (Cologne): Bastei-Luebbe SF Special 24012 [pb], 1980
  2. Pacific Quarterly Moana (Colin J. Lester)
    [Westlake Village CA], Vol 4 No 3, Jul 1979
  3. Blooded on Arachne (MB), Jan 1982; pp. 337 - 338
  4. Raumfahrer und Sternzigeuner (MB), Nov 1983, pp. 175 - 176
  5. Burning With a Vision (Robert Frazier)
    • Philadelphia PA: Owlswick Press; Aug 1984; pp. 13 - 14
      1. [hardcover]
      2. [trade paperback]
  6. Readercon 10 Program Book
    [Westborough MA], Jul 1998; p. 80
  7. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; pp. 89 - 90
  8. [as Za damu jednog fizičara] [Serbian translation]
    Znak sagite 7 (Boban Knežević)
    [Belgrade, Yugoslavia: Boban Knežević], Mar 2002; pp. 1034 - 1035
  9. The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase (Roger Dutcher & Mike Allen)
    • Rockville MD: Wildside Press [ISBN 0809511622] [trade pb]; Jun 2005 ($15.00)

For the Lady of a Physicist 2
  1. Shayol #4 (Pat Cadigan)
    [Kansas City KS: Flight Unlimited], Winter 1980; p. 29

(G)astronomical Song for Sentience
[18 lines]
  1. Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (Shawna McCarthy)
    [New York: Davis Publications], Sep 1984; p. 88
  2. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; p. 42

Grief
[24 lines]
  1. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; p. 71

The Haint of the Redneck Immortal Raises His Plaint
[22 lines]
  1. Fantasy Macabre #8 (Jessica Amanda Salmonson)
    [Uncasville CT: Richard H. Fawcett], 1986; p. 25

The Hornet
[16 lines]
  1. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; p. 70
  2. The Devil's Wine (Tom Piccirilli)
    • Baltimore MD: Cemetery Dance Publications [hc], Jun 2004; p. 144

The Hunchback of Tulsa, Oklahoma
[18 lines]
  1. Twilight Zone (Tappan King)
    [New York: TZ Publications], Jun 1988; p. 75
  2. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; p. 57

I am a Slot Machine in the Shrine of Bosch
[38 lines]
  1. Windows & Mirrors (MB), Aug 1977
  2. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; pp. 87 - 88

If Wishes Were Horses, Some of Them Would Buck
[21 lines]
  1. Star*Line (Robert Frazier)
    [Los Angeles CA: Science Fiction Poetry Assn.], Vol 5 No 4, Jul/Aug 1982; p. 10
  2. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; p. 75

In the Lilliputian Asylum: A Story in Eight Poems and an Interrogation

i. Prelude: A Semipolitical Reminiscence
ii. In-Processing: How We Are Put in Our Place
iii. Dwarves, Midgets, Pygmies: A Meditation
iv. A Letter to Lemeul
v. An Episode in the Lilliputian Wild
vi. o small rain: an asylum lament
vii. Seven Questions on Tuesday Morning
viii. On the Burial Customs of the Lilliputians
ix. A Vision of Horses Comforts the Madman

  1. Orbit 15 (Damon Knight)
    • New York: Harper & Row [hc]; Oct 1974
  2. [Part viii. as Dissertation on the Burial Customs of the Lilliputians]
    Windows & Mirrors (MB), Aug 1977
  3. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; pp. 3 - 18

Independence Day Forever
[23 lines]
  1. Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (Edward L. Ferman)
    [Cornwall CT: Mercury Press], Jul 1984; p. 28
  2. The 1985 Rhysling Anthology (anonymous)
    • Berkley CA: Science Fiction Poetry Association [pb]; Dec 1985; p. 7
  3. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; p. 37

ITH-CORO
[24 lines]
  1. The Anthology of Speculative Poetry #3 (Robert Frazier)
    [Sand Ridge WV: TASP Press], 1978; p. 18
  2. Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry (Steve Rasnic Tem)
    • Denver CO: Umbral Press [hc]; Spring 1982
  3. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; p. 38

Jamie's Hair
[21 lines]
  1. The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 84, No. 2 (Ted Genoways)
    [Charlottesville VA: The University of Virginia], Spring 2008; p. 251
  2. [Online Publication]

A Meeting
[12 lines]
  1. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; p. 72
  2. The Devil's Wine (Tom Piccirilli)
    • Baltimore MD: Cemetery Dance Publications [hc], Jun 2004; p. 143

The Mockingmouse
[48 lines]
  1. SF Commentary 87 (Bruce Gillespie)
    [Greensborough, Australia: Bruce Gillespie], Apr 2014: pp. 32 - 33 [print, PDF, and online publication]

My Berrocal
[16 lines]
  1. The Anthology of Speculative Poetry #3 (Robert Frazier)
    [Sand Ridge WV: TASP Press], 1978; p. 19
  2. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; p. 69

"O Never Tell Me I May Not Love You"
[18 lines]
  1. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; p. 86

Outrunning My Father
[28 lines]
  1. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; pp. 51 - 52

One-Rhyme Sonnet on the Mutability of Human Faith
[17 lines]
  1. [as by Muni Ben-Ami]
    The Sacerdotal Owl and Three Other Long Tales (MB), Aug 2018; p. 13

Palomas, Palabras
[17 lines]
  1. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; p. 34

Philip K. Dick is Dead, a Lass
[44 lines]
  1. QPB Calendar of Days 1999 (Kathy Kiernan)
    • Mechanicsburg PA: Quality Paperback Book Club [spiral-bound hc], Sep 1998
  2. Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction #571 (Gordon Van Gelder)
    [West Cornwall CT: Mercury Press, ISSN 1095-8258], Mar 1999 ($3.50); pp. 52-53
  3. The Devil's Wine (Tom Piccirilli)
    • Baltimore MD: Cemetery Dance Publications [hc], Jun 2004; pp. 135 - 136
  4. New York Review of Science Fiction #312 (David G. Hartwell and Kevin J. Maroney)
    [Yonkers NY: Burrowing Wombat Press], Aug 2014; p. 6
  5. SF Commentary #88 (Bruce Gillespie)
    [Greensborough, Victoria, Australia: Bruce Gillespie], Jan 2015; pp. 15 - 16

Planetarium
[10 lines]
  1. Speculative Poetry Review #2 (Robert Frazier)
    [Nantucket Island MA: Robert Frazier], 1977; p. 25
  2. Windows & Mirrors (MB), Aug 1977
  3. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; p. 63
  4. The Devil's Wine (Tom Piccirilli)
    • Baltimore MD: Cemetery Dance Publications [hc], Jun 2004; p. 138

Poem
(see Three for William Carlos Williams)

A Poem for My Daughter
[72 lines]
  1. Mythologies #12 (Don D'Ammassa)
    [E. Providence RI], Jun 1977
  2. Windows & Mirrors (MB), Aug 1977
  3. [as A Prayer for My Daughter]
    Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; pp. 66 - 68

Postcards to Athena
[14 lines]
  1. Speculative Poetry Review #1 (Robert Frazier)
    [Nantucket Island MA: Robert Frazier], 1977; p. 7
  2. Windows & Mirrors (MB), Aug 1977
  3. Burning With a Vision (Robert Frazier)
    • Philadelphia PA: Owlswick Press; Aug 1984; p. 12
      1. [hardcover]
      2. [trade paperback]
  4. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; p. 32

A Prayer for My Daughter
(see A Poem for My Daughter)

Pulses from a Rented House
[11 lines]
  1. Windows & Mirrors (MB), Aug 1977
  2. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; p. 62

Quilting in Winter
[18 lines]
  1. Windows & Mirrors (MB), Aug 1977
  2. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; p. 65

Regarding Snow
[36 lines]
  1. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; pp. 73 - 74

Saved
[36 lines]
  1. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; pp. 53 - 54

Secrets of the Alien Reliquary
[40 lines]
  1. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; pp. 46 - 47
  2. Asimov's Science Fiction (Gardner Dozois)
    [New York: Dell Magazines], Jul 1999; p. 71
  3. Best of the Rest 2 (Brian Youmans)
    • Boston MA: Suddenly Press [trade pb], Aug 1999; pp. 99 - 102
  4. Year's Best SF 5 (David G. Hartwell)
    • New York: Harper Eos [ISBN 0-06-102054-0] [pb], Jun 2000 ($6.99); 94 - 96
    • New York: Harper Eos [ISBN 0-7394-1110-1] [book club edition] [hc], Aug 2000 ($9.98)
  5. [as I segreti di un reliquiario alieno ] [Italian translation by Roberto Marini]
    Altre galassie: Il meglio della fantascienza (David G. Hartwell)
    • Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore [Urania #1450], Oct 2002; pp. 76 - 78

Silence for the Lady's Anger
[24 lines]
  1. Windows & Mirrors (MB), Aug 1977
  2. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; p. 58

This is Just to Say
(see Three for William Carlos Williams)

Three for William Carlos Williams

Poem [12 lines]
The Black Volkswagen [7 lines]
This is Just to Say [12 lines]

  1. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; pp. 82 - 83

To a Chimp Held Captive for Purposes of Research
[100 lines]
  1. Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (Shawna McCarthy)
    [New York: Davis Publications], Jan 1985; pp. 117 - 119
  2. [broadsheet; see Miscellaneous]
    • Willimantic CT: Mark Ziesing; 1986
  3. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; pp. 23 - 26
  4. The Devil's Wine (Tom Piccirilli)
    • Baltimore MD: Cemetery Dance Publications [hc], Jun 2004; pp. 131 - 134

Virtually Unknown Until 1983
[33 lines]
  1. Star*Line (Robert Frazier)
    [Schenectady NY: Science Fiction Poetry Assn.], Vol. 12 No. 5/6, Sep/Dec 1989; p. 7
  2. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; pp. 35 - 36

Vultures
[14 lines]
  1. The Anthology of Speculative Poetry #4 (Robert Frazier)
    [Nantucket Island MA: Robert Frazier], 1980; p. 29
  2. The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry (Steve Rasnic Tem)
    • Denver CO: Umbral Press [ISBN: 0-943422-00-0] [trade paperback], 1982 ($4.50)
  3. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; p. 33

White Power Poem
[5 lines]
  1. White Power Poem (Jack Dann)
    • Binghampton NY: Bellevue Press [postcard], 1976
  2. Windows & Mirrors (MB), Aug 1977
  3. Burning With a Vision (Robert Frazier)
    • Philadelphia PA: Owlswick Press; Aug 1984; p. 12
      1. [hardcover]
      2. [trade paperback]
  4. Time Pieces (MB), Dec 1998; p. 59
 

Compiled by Michael H. Hutchins

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