For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets is a poem written by Bruce Boston. It was first published in the 1984 magazine Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1984. It was reprinted in the 1984 collection All the Clocks Are Melting, in The 1985 Rhysling Anthology, in the 1986 anthology Nebula Awards 21, in the 1988 magazine Sirius, #140, in the 1995 collection Sensuous Debris: Selected Poems 1970-1995, in the 1997 magazine Sierra Heaven #3, Summer 1997, in the 2001 collection Quanta, in the magazine Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue #3, October-November 2002, in the 2005 anthology The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase, edited by Mike Allen and roger Dutcher, in the 2008 magazine StarShipSofa, No 39, in the magazine Silver Blade, November 2013, in the 2016 collection Brief Encounters with My Third Eye: Selected Short Poems 1975-2016, in the 2022 collection Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets.
It won the 1985 Rhysling Award for Best Poem.