A Specialist at The Recycled Heart: Free Verse
By Frank Prem
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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.
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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A Specialist at The Recycled Heart - Frank Prem
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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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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