Shelly Bryant

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In 7×20

• stopped at the border (July 2012)
• shuttle’s shadow (July 2012)
• fireworks and smoke (July 2012)
• fractal image (July 2012)
• the magnolia’s (July 2012)
• subtle breeze (March 2015)
• in a world of binaries (March 2015)
• firecracker scraps (March 2015)
• rafts afloat (October 2015)
• 22 June 1633 (October 2015)
• we (October 2015)
• bumblebee (with Miho Kinnas) (January 2017)
• cruising urban streets (February 2017)
• Alternate Realities (February-March 2017)

In Aoife’s Kiss

• Herr Leibniz (Sept 2007)
• Colonizers (June 2009)
• Under Pressure (June 2009)
• Fortunes Told (June 2009, also seen online)
• A Note on Her Pillow (December 2009)
• Natural Progression, excerpt (March ‘10)
• Merovingian (December 2010)
• In the Goldilocks Zone (June 2011)
• Armed Anew (December 2011)
• Apocalypse, Then and Now (December 2012)
• Jade Tiger (December 2012)

In Asia Writes

• Song (translation of an anonymous poem, Nov 2010)
• AfterLife (Dec 2010)
• Waiting Out the Rain (Apr 2011)

In Astropoetica

• When the Seeing is Good (Autumn 2009)

In At the Dot

• Epiphany (October 2010)

In Bakery of the Poets

• Screaming the Word (2007)
• A Blessing (2007)

In Beyond Centauri

• The Moon’s Affections (January 2010)
• Runes (April 2012)

In Ceriph

• Lao Ah-Pek (June 2011)
• Kopi Tiam (June 2011)

In Chinese Art and Letters

• Childhood’s Three Voices (April 2014)
• We’re all in the Service Area (April 2014)
• The Kitchen (2014)
• Ancient Dragon Kiln (2014)
• A Moment (2014)
• Preparing to Read Some Prose (2015)
• Remembering the Flavour (2015)
• Four-Fourteen (2015)
• Murder Capital (2015)

In Chrysanthemum

• s-curve (October 2012)
• collapsed cone (October 2012)

In Contemporary Haibun, Volume 12

• Slipping
• Anonymous

In Contemporary Haibun, Volume 13

• Spook Fish

In Contemporary Haibun Online

• Project (March 2009)
• Mr. Lincoln’s Program (June 2009)
• Bargain Hunter (June 2009)
• Homestead (July 2010)
• Love and War (Sept 2010)
• Slipping (Jan 2011)
• Overcast (Jan 2011)
• Creator’s Journal (Jan 2011)
• Anonymous (April 2011)
• Kites on the Beach (April 2011
• Launching Pad (April 2011)
• Transmission (July 2011)
• 696 Weihai Lu, May 2011 (October 2011)
• Tremors(January 2012)
• Spook Fish (January 2012)
• Hope (July 2012)
• Laundered (July 2012)
• Don’t Look (July 2012)
• Cross Country (April 2013)
• Christmas Morning, 2012 (April 2013)
• Pendulum (January 2015)

In Cover of Darkness 

• Night Falls (May 2009)

In Current Events newsletter (out of print)

• Dozer (March 2008)
• Child’s Play (April 2008)

In Daikaijuzine

•    Treatise on the First Human Communications Received by Lifeforms from a Planet on the Far Side of the Milky Way (March 2011)

In Dreams and Nightmares

• alone with you (May 2012)
• Venus, will you (Jan. 2013)

In Equatorial Calm

• behind glass eyes bulge (2016)
• between ray and shark (2016)
• clownfish skits (2016)
• coral encrusted (2016)
• fifty habitats (2016)
• habitats destroyed (2016)
• in blazing tones (2016)
• rubber tree to road (2016)

In Eunoia Review

•  A Day in DC, alone (Oct 2010)
• Broken Sword (Oct 2010)
• Compelling Outward Flight (Oct 2010)
• Hearing Voices (Nov 2010)
• dreams spread like wildfire (Nov 2010)
• memories so aged and distant (Nov 2010)
• Leave-taking (Nov 2010) – translation of Li Bai’s poem, with Lily Sun
• Artist Statement (Feb 2011)
• A Romance (Feb 2011)
• clutching an inky quill (Feb 2011)
• Recyclables (Feb 2011)
• She is Prose (Feb 2011)
• At the Renaissance Festival (March 2011)
• Mined, Minted (March 2011)
• Bedroom Eyes (March 2011)
• Border Skirmish (April 2011)
• Fire and Ice (May 2011)
• Palm (May 2011)
• Mount St. Helens:  Crater Glacier (May 2011)
• Seismic (September 2011)
• Moon (October 2011)
• On Tour (October 2011)
• steam from the pavement (November 2011) – a sijo, with Lily Sun
• City (December 2011)
• she tried to erase him (December 2011)
• afterglow (December 2011)
• Sichuan, c. 1990 (February 2012)
• Nothing to Fear but Panic Itself (March 2012)
• From Etna Flows (March 2012)
• Train (March 2012)
• Random Access Memory (April 2012)
• In Captivity, by the Streams of Babylon (April 2012, reprint)
• At a Poetry Reading (May 2012)
• Network Era (August 2012)
• That There May be no Misunderstandings (August 2012)
• When You Talk to Me (August 2012)
• Xieng Khouang, Laos (December 2012)
• Transfer of Power (December 2012)
• hope’s stain (April 2013)
• Mixed Signals (April 2013)
• Hephaestus (November 2013)
• When I Was (February 2014)
• I’m All Ears (February 2014)
• Frenzy (February 2014)
• Secret (July 2014)
• Alien (July 2014)
• 9 August 2013 (December 2014)
• Song of Dunhuang (February 2015)
• The Way (June 2015)
• black and white image (August 2015)
• Strong Fences (April 2016)
• Anticipating the Morning After (November 2016)
• mono no aware (November 2016)

In Every Day Poets

• Eclipsed (Oct 2012)
• not quite (2013)

In Expressions newsletter (out of print)

• Our Universe Expands (June 2009)
• Each Particle Contains the Whole (October 2009)
• in early autumn (November 2009)
• Night Watch (December 2009)
• Ambarvalia (December 2009)
• Simurgh (Jan 2010)

In The Fifth Di…

• Dawn (June 2008)
• In Season (December 2008)
• Dreams of Elsewhere (March 2009)
• Nirvana in the New Era (June 2010)
• Hymn of Origins (March 2011)
• The World Over (June 2011)
• The Breathing Cosmos (September 2011)
• Speechless Encounter (December 2011)
• When Two Centuries Have Passed (March 2013)

In Finding Your Wings

• Cast Out (2003)

In A Galaxy of Verse (not available online)

• Trinity (2006)
• Eggshell Carvings (2006)
• Compatriots (2006)
• Acrostic (2007)
• Showdown (2007)
• Electric Storm (2007)

In The Genesis Project

• Cursed (2007)
• In Eternity’s Eye (2007)
• Under Foot (2007)
• Upon Further Reflection (2008)
• Visitation (2009)
• Men of Renown (2009)

In In Gilded Frame

• Pandora (2013)

In haikuniverse

• sloughed scales (2016)

In Illumen

• Birdman (Spring ’11)
• Voodoo (Autumn ’11)
• The Questing Beast (Autumn 2012)
• View from the Oort Cloud (Spring 2013)
• Lancelot (Spring 2013)
• on Mars (Spring 2016)

In Kafla Intercontinental 

• Amalgam
• Earthrise

In Lacuna Journal

• Shanghai, 1937 (October 2012)

In Layang Layang

• Babel City (August 2010)
• For the Record (August 2010)
• Gone (August 2010)
• Check Up (August 2010)
• condemned cyborg king (August 2010)
• Greater Light and Lesser
• a fiery end
• palming hollow skull
• Intro & poem

In Lontar Journal

• Naga, a Khmer myth

In The Martian Wave

• Bypassed (June 2009)
• Starry Knights (2011)
• The Distant Planet (2012)
• The Great Galactic Ghoul (2016)

In Micro Art 

• First Light (Dec 2010, reprint)
• Euterpe’s image (Dec 2010, reprint)
• The Nature of the City  (Dec 2010, reprint)
• Platonic Pilot (May 2011)
• Storm and Fury (May 2011)
• Nile Crossing (May 2011)
• Overheard / Overseen (2013)
• volcanic winter’s onset
• explosive

In Mirror Dance

• Cave Drawings (Autumn 2009)
• Long Compton (Winter 2009)
• The Day’s Work (Spring 2010)
• To Memory You Are Called (Summer 2010)
• Byblos (Autumn 2010)
• Her Light Extinguished (Winter 2010)
• Entrance Exam (Autumn 2011)
• Storm at Sea (Winter 2011)
• Peace Offering (Summer 2012)
• Master Craftsman (Winter 2012)
• Irruption (Spring 2013)
• The Throne, Restored (Autumn 2013)

In Motel 58 (out of print)

• Chicago, 1893 (March 2009)
• In His Images (March 2009)
• Suicide Note (2009)

In the NewerYork

• (re)Genesis (2012)
• Unraveling (2012)

In Not One of Us

• electrodes hooked up (April 2009)
• a bulleted list (October 2009)

In parABnormal Digest

• midnight seance (March 2012)

In The Pink Chameleon

• Company (June 2008)

In Poetry Kanto

• Bird Shadow  (translation, with Miho Kinnas)
• The Song of Rowanberry (translation, with Miho Kinnas)
• Dream (translation, with Miho Kinnas)
• Preserved Morning (translation, with Miho Kinnas)
• A Bucket of Flowers (translation, with Miho Kinnas)

In Psychic Meatloaf

• Acrylic on Canvas (April 2011, issue 3)

In the Royal Asiatic Society Journal

• Koi (2016)
• Rank and File (2016)
• Ruins and Rebuilding (2016)

In Scifaikuest

• Creature (Nov 2007, print)
• Forty Winks (Aug 2008, online)
• gray matter enshrined (Aug 2008, print)
• Abandoned World (Aug 2008, print)
• Featured Poet (November 2008) => 4 ‘ku, Rebound, Avatar, Cryogenics, Automata, Fancy, Hatched, Suffrage, Enacted, Congregated, Turning to Dust, Garbage In, Garbage Out, tomorrow-ward bound, wholly demonic, bones raised to life and minor procedure
• Manipulated (May 2009, online)
• In Space, Lost (May 2009, print)
• always pleased to serve (May 2009, print)
• gods who frighten us (August 2009)
• Organic Emissary’s Fib (August 2009)
• Hide and Seek (August 2009)
• beneath icy plains (August 2009)
• non-binary codes (August 2009, online)
• Harvest Moon (November 2009)
• Juno’s Itinerary (November 2009)
• elderberry wine (November 2009, online)
• Progress (February 2010)
• Tidal (February 2010)
• Primordial (May 2010)
• swordnsorcery (May 2010)
• an aged wizard (May 2010)
• Ghost / Machine (November 2010, print)
• Engineered (November 2010, online)
• Delivery (February 2011, print)
• refueling stations (February 2011, online)
• She Said / He Said (February 2011, print)
• deep in Etna’s heart (February 2011, print)
• armed in new technology (February 2011, print)
• Getaway (February 2011, online)
• Japan’s factories (February 2011, print)
• sciatica (May 2011, print)
• Europa-grown wood (August 2011, print)
• freshly uploaded (August 2011, print)
• Life Form Discovered (August 2011, print)
• a fallen warrior’s corpse (August 2011, print)
• Through the Void (August 2011, print)
• casual concourse (August 2011, online)
• Robogirl (August 2011, print)
• In a Minute (article) (August 2011, print)
• Ganymede (article) (August 2011)
• bio-engineered beasts (February 2012, print)
• proudly he sits (February 2012, print)
• Exile (article) (May 2012, print)
• Comet Wild (August 2012, online)
• Wild 2 (August 2012, print)
• excursions (August 2012, print)
• AD 475 (August 2012, print)
• deserted homestead (November 2012, online)
• hunger moon (November 2012, online)
• ice regolith (November 2012, online)
• planet-wide (February 2013, print)
• forty years after the blast (May 2013)
• through the moongate drop (May 2013)
• Arrival (May 2014, print)
• Sentence (May 2014, online)
• The Sijo (May 2014, print)
• you (August 2014, print)
• Exhumation (November 2014, print)
• The Reply (by Tai Shangyin) (article)
• accelerated (May 2015, print)
• biogenetic cocktail mixed (May 2015, print)
• golden robots (May 2015, print)
• in an imagined world (May 2015, print)
• 1537 Transylvania (August 2015, print)
• time- space (article) (August 2015)
• Read Two Ways: The Cleave (August 2015)
• the distances traveled together (November 2015, print)
• curls (November 2015, print)
• objectivity (November 2015, print)
• Pluto (Feb 2016, print)
• it was doomed from the start (Feb 2016, online)
• PSRB1620-26b (Feb 2016, print)
• talisman (Feb 2016, print)
• so long – orbiting (Aug 2016, online)
• From the Oort Cloud Shielding (Aug 2016, print)
• Timekeeper (Aug 2016, print)
• excess mass (Aug 2017, print)
• Jupiter (Aug 2017, print)
• on the flyby you pulled me in (Aug 2017, print)
• big things beyond (Aug 2017, online)
• Gravity (Aug 2017, online)

In Shelter of Daylight

• *start* (October 2010)
• Mission (October 2010)

In Slippage

• new frontiers (Fall / Winter 2013)

In Sloth Jockey

• Temenos (June 2008)
• Enmity (June 2008)
• Truth, Justice (June 2008)
• Spectrophotoelectric (July 2008)
• The City of Dis (July 2008)
• Never Land (Aug 2008)
• I (Sept 2008)
• Affected (Sept 2008)
• Just Passing Through (Nov 2008)
• War Footage (Nov 2008)
• Keep it in the Family (Jan 2009)
• Pellinore’s Dive (Feb 2009)
• Blowing Smoke (Apr 2009)
• Faultlines (May 2009)
• too quiet for thought (Aug 2009)
• Pari (Sept 2009)
• Notes on Scrap Paper (Oct 2009)
• Waiting Area (Dec 2009)
• Bug (February 2010)
• Memories Shared, Standing on Your Balcony (March 2010)
• Eggshell Carvings, reprint (June 2010)
• The World (Remix) (July 2010)
• Semantics (November 2010)
• Luna (Feb 2011)
• A Cry From the Depths (Mar 2011)
• Benevolent Protection (Mar 2011)

In The Shantytown Anomaly

• Robotics (issue 8)

In Shoreline of Infinity

• Comet (2016)
• Travels Through the Kuiper belt (2016)
• Saturn, and His Heir (2016)

In Sounds of the Night

• Juno’s Pet (August 2011)

In Southern Ocean Review

• A to Z (Jan 2008)
• Discarded (Jan 2008)
• Rush Hour (Jan 2008)

In Spaceports & Spidersilk

• mane proudly shaken (June 2009)

In Star*Line

• Tell Me Now (January 2011)
• eeriness collides (2011)
• Antigone:  a ‘ku cycle (2011)
• From Sky to Sea (2012)
• warm glow (2012)
• I Was Marooned on a Desert Island, see (October 2012)
• Andromeda’s Blossoms (2015; transaltion, with Miho Kinnas)

In Strong Verse

• Not Allowed (2010)

In The Taylor Trust (out of print)

• Collapse (Spring 2009)
• Lights Turned Down (Summer 2009)
• Reunion, the morning after (Summer 2009)
• Translators • Traitors (Winter 2009)
• Grasped (Spring 2010)
• These Three Remain (Spring 2010)
• Not for Me (Summer 2010)
• Made in a Moment (Summer 2010)
• Back to Nature (Summer 2010)

The THF Haiku App

• elderberry wine (2012, reprint)

In Things that Disappear (2011) – an art exhibition

• In Captivity, by the Streams of Babylon

In The Urbanity Project (2010)

• First Light
• Euterpe’s image
• The Nature of the City

In Up the River

• Monster (2014)
• Orienteer (2014)

In Valent Range  (out of print)

• Resolution (Summer 2010)
• Adrift (Summer 2010)
• an empty metal bowl (Summer 2010)
• co-evolving (Fall 2010)
• Mind-Blowing (Winter 2010)

In Wild Plum magazine

• sleepy town (Spring & Summer 2016)

In Writing Edge magazine

• Looking Through (Spring 2006)
• Landslide (Spring 2006)
• Glassstorm (Spring 2006)
• Real Life (Summer 2006)

Postcard by Yellow Flag Press

• At the Phoenix Pagoda (2013)

In Yorick Magazine

• Pandora’s Plea (2013)

In Xenia 2011

• alienation
• Cartesian
• hunkered down
• Imprint
• lines of a forgotten script
• Radiation
• Snapshot: Investigation
• Snapshot: Occupation
• Snapshot: Transformation
• Walking to Jupiter
• Xenia

In Xenith

• Wang Jiang Lou (translated from Chinese) (June 2010)

Commissioned Work

• Shanghai Singapore International School (preschool division)
• Graduation Poem:  “Stepping Out” (2008)
• Graduation Poem:  “Wonderful World” (2009)
• Private commission, Shanghai, China ~ a haiku (2010)

Previously Published Poems Now Available at Anthology Builder

•  When the Seeing is Good
• A Note on Her Pillow
• Under Pressure
• Natural Progression, Act 2