Laid-back in orbit, they found their minds.
They found their minds were very clean and clear.
Clear crystals in swarms outside were their fireflies and larks.
Larks they were in lift-off, swallows in soaring…

—Edwin Morgan, “A Home in Space” 🚀
Centenary Selected Poems, Carcanet 2020
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Poem "The Birth of Sentience on Aggraboth V" originally published Mar. 2008 in The Fifth Di..., Edition 10, #1, and also published Oct. 2009 in the online version of Abandoned Towers.
Background illustration reworking of illustration originally published Oct. 2009 in the online version of Abandoned Towers
Poem and Illustration Copyright © Richard H. Fay
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Poem "Marriage of Earth and Antares" originally published Feb. 2008 in Issue 2 of Sounds of the Night and also published in the September/October 2010 Issue of the webzine Aphelion:
http://www.aphelion-webzine.com/poetry/2010/09/MarriageofEarthandAntares.html
Background image by Richard H. Fay
Poem Copyright © 2008 Richard H. Fay
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Scifaiku "temporal crack" originally published in the webzine APHELION, May 2009, and also published in the online version of ABANDONED TOWERS, June 2009.
"Temporal Crack" illustration ("Charging Knight" and "Allosaurus") originally published in the online version of ABANDONED TOWERS, June 2009.
Scifaiku and illustration both Copyright © Richard H. Fay
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Poem "Texas Stargazin'" originally published Nov. 2010 in Issue #7 of Abandoned Towers.
"Texas Stargazin'" illustration by Richard H. Fay previously unpublished.
Poem and Illustration Both Copyright © Richard H. Fay
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Poem "Wondrous Gobbledygook" originally published Apr. 2011 in the webzine Aphelion:
https://www.aphelion-webzine.com/poetry/2011/04/Gobbledegook.html 

and also published Oct. 2016 in Altered Reality Magazine and Feb. 2022 ) in HimmelSkibet (in Kenneth Krabat’s review of Peter Graarup Westergaard’s poetry collection Warning Light Calling).

Illustration "Blue-Green Fuguwordle" previously unpublished.

Poem and Illustration Copyright © Richard H. Fay

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Poem originally published Aug. 2011 in the webzine Aphelion:
https://www.aphelion-webzine.com/poetry/2011/08/LastThoughts.html

and also published online Oct. 2016 in Altered Reality Magazine:
https://www.alteredrealitymag.com/last-thoughts-of-a-cosmic-fighter-pilot-by-richard-h-fay/

Background image by Richard H. Fay
Poem and Background Image © Richard H. Fay
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Scifaiku "gothic armour" originally published Nov. 2012 in Scifaikuest (print), Vol. X, No. 2
Scifaiku Copyright © 2012 Richard H. Fay
Background digital manipulation of image by Daniel from Pixabay:
https://pixabay.com/photos/gothic-armor-knight-warrior-7442235/
 Pixabay License:
Free to use under the Pixabay license
No attribution required
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Poem "Galactic Road Trip" originally published Summer 2008 in Tales of the Talisman 4-1, and also published Oct. 2008 in the online version of Abandoned Towers.
Illustration "Galactic Road Trip (2018)" originally published Feb. 2021 in Spaceports & Spidersilk.
Poem and Illustration Copyright © Richard H. Fay
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