Our Love Is A Fiction Demanding To Be Future

Poetry

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By: Jenna Hanchey

Issue: 13 July 2026

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[Editor’s Note: A text-only version of this visual poem appears below the image.]

A black and white collage over the background of a mosaic image of Callisto's surface. The text is accented by stars, mushrooms, a white tulip, a narwhal, and a crow.

Lovers!
How do we work out distances as they increase across the
vastness of space?
WE KEPT THE MAGIC
IMAGINING
Other LIVES
Coming Along
THE COSMIC DISTANCE LADDER
radical
creative
deep
Pinpoint Explosions.
intent on
new life
Witnessing fiction demand to be future
you’ll come back again soon.

[Editor’s Note: The publication of this poem was made possible by a contribution from Zac Wood during our annual fundraiser.]

About Jenna Hanchey

Jenna Hanchey (she/her) is a land-based mermaid who listens to what the birds carry on the wind. She's a British Science Fiction Association award-shortlisted writer and audio narrator. Her fiction, poetry, and artwork explore grief, imagine liberation, center intimacies, and engender hope. She’s an award-winning researcher, whose next book, Decolonial Dreamwork: Africanfuturism and Imagination Beyond Development, is forthcoming from Ohio State University Press in February 2027. Follow her adventures at www.jennahanchey.com.

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