I am delighted to make the cut for the 2021 Dwarf Stars anthology with my poem “Garden”.
The Dwarf Stars anthology is produced annually by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, an organization founded in 1978 by science fiction author and linguist Suzette Haden Elgin.
Each year, Dwarf Stars showcases the editor’s pick of the best science fiction poetry of 10 lines or less that was published the preceding year. This year’s editor was Charles Christian.
My poem is a triolet, which is an 8-line French form dating to the 1300s. The triolet has a very specific scheme of rhyme and repeating lines: ABaAabAB.
“Garden” was first published last year in my book Devolution (Caitlin Press, 2020).
GARDEN
Deep in the garden lush and wild
Beneath a rotting log
A salamander grows three eyes
Deep in the garden lush and wild
You love each tumor like a child
An owl gives birth to rolling fog
Deep in the garden lush and wild
Beneath a rotting log
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