By: John Holbo

“Each new wave’s solemn vow:/Now is NOW!”

By: John Holbo

“Like some bird whose high perch has/Been axed, cleaved and cleft!”

By: John Holbo

“By the past, in the lurch, you/Will find yourselves left!”

By: Joshua Glenn

From THE PASTEL CITY and THE LATHE OF HEAVEN to THE DAY OF THE JACKAL

By: John Holbo

“Tomorrow is golden-NEW/This should embolden you!”

By: Joshua Glenn

Victor Canning’s FIRECREST

By: John Holbo

“For casting a cast/To catch something quite VAST!”

By: Joshua Glenn

Jack Kirby’s FOURTH WORLD storyline

By: John Holbo

“That’s WHY fortune’s fickler/And WHY I’m a stickler”

By: Joshua Glenn

Robert C. O’Brien’s MRS. FRISBY AND THE RATS OF NIMH

By: John Holbo

“History pickles/The things of the past!”

By: Joshua Glenn

M. John Harrison’s THE PASTEL CITY

By: John Holbo

“Dame Fortune/Is fickler than that/(If you’ve met her!)”

By: Joshua Glenn

Ursula K. LeGuin’s THE LATHE OF HEAVEN

By: John Holbo

Vs. “Grandma’s old recipe/For being better and better.”