To borrow a phrase from a friend and fellow author, in 2021 I broke out in poetry: like a rash, but much prettier.

After a lifetime of basically not writing poetry at all, suddenly my brain began producing verse. It’s an odd feeling, like I’ve suddenly begun speaking in tongues, but I like it? And so I have begun racking up poetry sales to go along with my short fiction and novels — in fact, there are enough of them now that I’ve decided to divide them into broad categories like my short fiction, even though quite a few of these poems blur the boundaries.

Contemporary fantasy

• “The Dream of Jeannie”
• “Dulle Griet Stages a New Assault”
• “Our Rewards”
• “Hallucination”
• “Draco Urbis”

Folklore

• “Drawing Strength”
• “Gorgoneia”
• “The Great Undoing”
• “Thought and Memory”
• “Axis Mundi”
• “Among the Briars”

Historical fantasy

• “To the Angels Alone”
• “Damnatio Memoriae”

Secondary world fantasy

• “In the salt-drowned lands”
• “The Virtues of the Throne”
• “Story Sits in Places”
• “Hermit of the Crossroads”
• “A War of Words” — Hugo Award winner

SF (science fiction/science fantasy)

• “An Astronomical Clerihew”
• “Core Sample”
• “Cutting the Cord”