New poem from me today, up at Kaleidotrope – Awakening – another take on the Sleeping Beauty story, with a slight twist that I won’t spoil.
Free to read – though it might be worth tipping the publisher, or joining that Patreon.
Enjoy!
It’s raining right now, which seems like a good time to tell you about a couple of new poems from me:
First, a triolet, “Adjustments and Loss,” which appeared in the June 2025 issue of Utopia Science Fiction Magazine. You do need to pay for the issue to read it – but that pay goes to support other writers and poets, and grants you access to other stories and poems AND and interview with Bogi Takács.
Triolets – short poems with repeating lines – are a mini obsession of mine; I’ve found myself working on a number of them this year. We’ll see if any more end up getting published.
Second, When All I Could See Were Flowers, free to read at Kaleidotrope. This longer poem was loosely inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen, another fairy tale I return to now and again.
Enjoy!
October has already, as they say, been a month – and it’s only October 9th. And in the midst of watching major Hurricane Milton making a steady, ominous approach right to my house, breaking various records along the way, I suddenly realized – WAIT! I forgot to blog about my poem, Descent, that appeared in Kaleidotrope earlier this month!
So taking a moment during this pre-hurricane hot coffee to let you know about this poem – a poem about talking in the afterwards, of briefly touching in the cold and darkness. Quite fitting for hurricanes and October.
Enjoy!
My first publication of 2021 is out – a small poem with a long title, Beneath the Palace Dictionary the Last Evil Mars Moth Sleeps, out in Kaleidotrope.
This particular poem was inspired by something the editor, Fred Coppersmith, said on Twitter – which suggests, I guess, that Twitter isn’t always a waste of time for authors.
Enjoy!
Some fairy tales leave me cheering for the wrong side. Particularly “The Goose Girl.” I mean, think about it. We’re supposed to be totally on the side of the princess, and totally against the maid. But who in this fairy tale, exactly, is walking around talking to drops of blood? The princess. Who in this fairy tale, exactly, is constantly calling up a wind to blow away the hat of her mostly innocent coworker? The princess. Who in this fairy tale, exactly, is talking to the head of a dead horse? Again, the princess.
And who, exactly, ends up dead in the end?
Not the princess.
My little poem about it, The Chambermaid, just went up on Kaleidotrope today.
Enjoy!
To start off 2018, a little tale from me about the underworld and journeys there, Shadows and Bells, in Kaleidotrope.
This story was rather difficult to place, so I’m delighted to see it out in the world at last.
Enjoy!
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