A Specialist at The Recycled Heart

By Frank Prem

A Specialist at The Recycled Heart is free verse poetry and storytelling focused on the Speculative Fiction (SF) genre. The genre of What If . . . writing that encompasses fantasy and Sci fi and other forms within its warm embrace.

. What is the sound of the wind - of a sigh - on Mars?

. What does an abandoned artificial life form - an AI - contemplate in a lonely existence in far outer space. Why was it made, if only to be abandoned.

. Is it possible to go fishing to catch a passing thought?

.These and other all-too-big ideas are explored in the pages of A Specialist at The Recycled Heart.

Poetry written the way you always wished it would be.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Frank Prem
• Release date: Sep 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9781925963854

Frank Prem

Frank Prem has been a storytelling poet for forty years. When not writing or reading his poetry to an audience, he fills his time by working as a psychiatric nurse.He has been published in magazines, e-zines and anthologies, in Australia and in a number of other countries, and has both performed and recorded his work as ‘spoken word’.Frank has published several collections of free verse poetry – Small Town Kid (2018), Devil In The Wind (2019), and The New Asylum (2019). and A Love Poetry Trilogy (Walk Away Silver Heart; A Kiss for the Worthy; and Rescue and Redemption) in 2020, as well as a two part picture book – A Beechworth Bakery Bears e-Book and A Beechworth Bakery Bears e-Book (too).He and his wife live in the beautiful township of Beechworth in northeast Victoria (Australia).

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Publication Details

Title: A Specialist at The Recycled Heart

ISBN: 978-1-925963-51-9 (p-bk)

ISBN: 978-1-925963-85-4 (e-bk)

Published by Wild Arancini Press, 2022

Leaving: One ,Two, Three first appeared in Short Stories of Ghosts and Graves Anthology (OzTales) 2020

Aquarius: where are your sheep first appeared in Aquarius: Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Zodiac (The Zodiac Series) Deadset Press (2020)

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Cover Image source Marek Studzinski, Pixabay

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Every day I take possession of dreams, and wishes, and hopes . . .

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About A Specialist at The Recycled Heart

A Specialist at The Recycled Heart is free verse poetry and storytelling focused on the Speculative Fiction (SF) genre. The genre of What If . . . writing that encompasses fantasy and Sci fi and other forms within its warm embrace.

What is the sound of the wind – of a sigh – on Mars?

What does an abandoned artificial life form – an AI – contemplate in a lonely existence in far outer space. Why was it made, if only to be abandoned.

Is it possible to go fishing to catch a passing thought?

These and other all-too-big ideas are explored in the pages of A Specialist at The Recycled Heart.

Poetry written the way you always wished it would be.

A Specialist at The Recycled Heart

the mind of K20 (1 0 1 0)

god took

most of me

took me away

to the brighter stars

the rest

he left right here

on K20

1 0

a comet

is not a world

it is a lump

of dirty ice

and trace water

1 0 10

every now and then

around a sun . . .

the particles

will stream away

and dance

pretty

perhaps

I wouldn’t know

I am not here

to conduct

an appreciation

10110 10 110

a mind

can be too smart

that is what

I’ve learned

a mind

can know too much

then

become a danger

1010

11 00 10

they programmed me