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The 2021 Rhysling Anthology

The 2021 Rhysling Anthology

Alessandro Manzetti
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The 2021 Rhysling Anthology contains the best speculative poems published in English in 2020, nominated by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. The Anthology serves as the voting instrument for the annual Rhysling Award, given in Long and Short categories. Poems may be science fiction, fantasy, or horror, and often include tropes from more than one genre. The Anthology is a respected showcase of speculative poetry.

Table of Contents

Short Poems First Published in 2020

Summer Time • Linda D. Addison 1
Timegeddon • Francis Wesley Alexander 2
The Void Blends in Your Hands
• Carmen Lucía Alvarado 4
The Tree of Eyes • Colleen Anderson 5
They Made My Face • Sara Backer 6
Sealskin Reclaimed • Alison Bainbridge 6
a siren whispered in my ear one night • Ashley Bao 7
Chrono-Man • F. J. Bergmann 8
Lesser Eternity • F. J. Bergmann 10
Chronovisor Wanted • Robert Borski 10
The Monster Maker • Bruce Boston 11
When Change Comes • Karen Bovenmyer 12
The Edge of Galaxy NGC 4013 • Warren Brown 12
He Sold What He Had Left • Diane Callahan 13
Three Triolets • Anna Cates 15
The Luck Eaters • Beth Cato & Rhonda Parrish 16
Post-Obit Cautionary Tale • G. O. Clark 17
Zodiac Girl • Carolyn Clink 18
Back Story • David Clink 19
The dead couple of Blenheim • William Clunie 20
an alien axiom • Gerald L. Coleman 21
Mouthing off • PS Cottier 22
The Memory of Summer • Jennifer Crow 23
The Old God Dies • Jennifer Crow 24
The Man with the Corpse on His Shoulders • James Cushing 24
Isotopical • d’Ores&Deja 26
A Hand Against My Window • Deborah L. Davitt 27
A Touch of Lightning in the Soul • Deborah L. Davitt 28
The Witch’s Cat • Deborah L. Davitt 28
Beneath the Fullest Moon • Ashley Dioses 29
Dragons Guard Our Family Fortune • Adele Gardner 30
Last Contact • Jean-Paul L. Garnier 31
The Mollusk God • Maxwell Ian Gold 32
Tree Limbs Block the Road • Patricia Gomes 32
Lucky & His Dad • Alan Ira Gordon 33
The Crib • Vince Gotera 34
A Soldier Writes His Wife • Vince Gotera 35
First Contact • Robin Rose Graves 36
Teddy Bear Diner • Michael H. Hanson 38
Hungry Ghost • Millie Ho 38
Ignorance, my prophylactic • Akua Lezli Hope 40
Dolly Waits • Juleigh Howard-Hobson 41
That is not what I meant at all • Brian Hugenbruch 41
“Flee”—The Last Dispatch from the Jemison Station • Maya C. James 42
Requiem • Clay F. Johnson 42
Form Factor • Tim Jones 44
Family Historian • Herb Kauderer 45
Cave Painting • Oliver Keane 46
Posle Nas • Rosalie Morales Kearns 46
Star Trip • M. X. Kelly 48
Witching • Erin Kirsh 48
Life Goes On • David C. Kopaska-Merkel 49
We sell skin on sale • Rachel Lachmansingh 51
The Forest in the Full of the Moon • Geoffrey A. Landis 51
Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins • Geoffrey A. Landis 52
The Cat’s Epilogue • Mary Soon Lee 53
Cavall • Mary Soon Lee 55
What Phoenixes Read • Mary Soon Lee 55
Darning • Sandra J. Lindow 56
Rapunzel at Seventy • Sandra J. Lindow 57
Grass Whisperer • Lynne M. MacLean 57
Lovely Ludwig Van • Alessandro Manzetti 59
Kings and Queens of Narnia • Meep Matsushima 60
Black Water, Black Bones • Michelle Muenzler 60
Libations • Soonest Nathaniel 61
Cento for Lagahoos • Brandon O’Brien 62
Mountain • Cindy O’Quinn 63
You Were With Me • Cindy O’Quinn 63
the 2021 Rhysling Anthology xvii
The Krakeness • K. A. Opperman 64
On the Edge of Forever • Josh Pearce 65
Fin • Terese Mason Pierre 66
Like Clockwork • Christina M. Rau 67
Bar Scene • John Reinhart 68
It Feels Like Drowning • Terrie Leigh Relf 68
Fear of police, but as sci-fi, because /that/ you can understand -or, less
passive aggressively- get these fucking phasers out of my face
• J. C. Rodriguez 69
Invocation of my guardian angel in six sexts • Camille Rosas 70
Arrival Mind • Louis B. Rosenberg 71
Of fairy tales— • David F. Shultz 73
People Dropping Dead in the Mall Parking Lot • Alan Ray Simmons 74
Journey’s End • Marge Simon 75
Old Playfellow • Noel Sloboda 76
Riding the Exhale • Angela Yuriko Smith 77
The Deer • Christina Sng 78
Dream Weaver • Blaize Kelly Strothers 79
The Selkie Wife • Marcie Lynn Tentchoff 80
Andromeda’s Lament • Gretchen Tessmer 81
End Credits • Gretchen Tessmer 82
A Tempest • Sheree Renée Thomas 83
Why did white people conquer the world for spices and then never use
them? • R. Thursday 84
King Pest • Richard L. Tierney 86
Athena Holds Up a Mirror to Strength • Ali Trotta 87
Persephone’s Sneakers • Amanda Trout 88
Extinction No. 6 • Morgan L. Ventura 88
Unlooping • Marie Vibbert 89
Acacia • Holly Lyn Walrath 90
we are all energy • M. Darusha Wehm 90
The Paper Effigies Shop • Deborah Wong 91
[hand-me-down] • Greer Woodward 92

Long Poems First Published in 2020

And It Was Bad • Anne Carly Abad 95
The Looking Glass • Colleen Anderson 96
Snow White’s Apples • Colleen Anderson 98
Time Traveller’s Memory • Davian Aw 100
Regarding • F. J. Bergmann 105
The Riches of the Cloud Country • Ruth Berman 108
Eleven exhibits in a better Natural History Museum, London
• Jenny Blackford 110
The priestess’s daughter • Jenny Blackford 112
The Third Sister • Andrea Blythe 116
Parabiont • Robert Borski 117
Devilish Incantations • Bruce Boston 120
Wishes • Jennifer Bushroe 123
Learning the Way • Sarah Cannavo 124
Mrs. Housekeeper • Beth Cato 126
My Cat, He • Beth Cato 128
Cursebody • May Chong 130
Municipal Ghosts • May Chong 132
La Bête: The Beast of Gévaudan • Frank Coffman 134
The Wheel of the Year • Frank Coffman 138
The Imp and the Bottle • Sharon Cote 146
The King of Eyes • PS Cottier 148
Twisted Sayings • Ashley Dioses 149
After the Decipherment • FJ Doucet 151
Penelope, the truth • Clarabelle Fields 154
The Mad Scientist to the Muse of Her Dreams • Adele Gardner 156
Odysseus Grins at Fate and the Gods • Adele Gardner 158
Seven Steps to Reach Your Father across the Great Divide • Adele Gardner 159
Cellars, Caskets, and Closets • Maxwell I. Gold 162
The Secret Ingredient is Always the Same • Sarah Grey 164
Fermi’s Spaceship • Jamal Hodge 167
Igbo Landing • Akua Lezli Hope 169
First Turn • Juleigh Howard-Hobson 170
The Finger • Abi Hynes 172
An Offering • Michael Janairo 174
The Emerald Witch Stone • Clay F. Johnson 176
The First Dragon • Herb Kauderer 179
The Unicorn Insane • Herb Kauderer 181
Dictionary of the Lost • Luke Kernan 183
Robo Sapiens Thinks He Thinks • Geoffrey A. Landis 185
Ford • Mary Soon Lee 187
Jumble • Mary Soon Lee 193
Two Weeks • Mary Soon Lee 196
Invisible Ink • Gerri Leen 198
Social Graces • Lori R. Lopez 201
The Whistle Stop • Lori R. Lopez 204
The Son-in-law from Hell • LindaAnn LoSchiavo 208
Budapest • S. Qiouyi Lu 210
Alice • Alessandro Manzetti 215
the cage • Alessandro Manzetti 217
The Believers • Meep Matsushima 219
Nephele, On Friday • Elizabeth R. McClellan 221
There Must Be Blood • Elizabeth R. McClellan 224
lagahoo culture • Brandon O’Brien 226
Mise-en-scène • Suphil Lee Park 229
Next! • Michael H. Payne 231
Caged • Marsheila Rockwell 233
Our Lady of the Acherontia • Allan Rozinski 236
Such Monstrous Births • Emily Smith 238
All that I have lost • Christina Sng 240
Dark Forest • Christina Sng 243
Hansel and Gretel • Christina Sng 245
Love Song of the Swamp Witch Scorned • Alena Sullivan 248
A Song from Bedlam • Nike Sulway 250
A Dish Best Served • Lisa Timpf 253
Daughters Saving Mothers • Holly Lyn Walrath 256
Language
English
Pages
286
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Independently Published
Release
April 05, 2021
ISBN 13
9798729264155

The 2021 Rhysling Anthology

Alessandro Manzetti
4.7/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
The 2021 Rhysling Anthology contains the best speculative poems published in English in 2020, nominated by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. The Anthology serves as the voting instrument for the annual Rhysling Award, given in Long and Short categories. Poems may be science fiction, fantasy, or horror, and often include tropes from more than one genre. The Anthology is a respected showcase of speculative poetry.

Table of Contents

Short Poems First Published in 2020

Summer Time • Linda D. Addison 1
Timegeddon • Francis Wesley Alexander 2
The Void Blends in Your Hands
• Carmen Lucía Alvarado 4
The Tree of Eyes • Colleen Anderson 5
They Made My Face • Sara Backer 6
Sealskin Reclaimed • Alison Bainbridge 6
a siren whispered in my ear one night • Ashley Bao 7
Chrono-Man • F. J. Bergmann 8
Lesser Eternity • F. J. Bergmann 10
Chronovisor Wanted • Robert Borski 10
The Monster Maker • Bruce Boston 11
When Change Comes • Karen Bovenmyer 12
The Edge of Galaxy NGC 4013 • Warren Brown 12
He Sold What He Had Left • Diane Callahan 13
Three Triolets • Anna Cates 15
The Luck Eaters • Beth Cato & Rhonda Parrish 16
Post-Obit Cautionary Tale • G. O. Clark 17
Zodiac Girl • Carolyn Clink 18
Back Story • David Clink 19
The dead couple of Blenheim • William Clunie 20
an alien axiom • Gerald L. Coleman 21
Mouthing off • PS Cottier 22
The Memory of Summer • Jennifer Crow 23
The Old God Dies • Jennifer Crow 24
The Man with the Corpse on His Shoulders • James Cushing 24
Isotopical • d’Ores&Deja 26
A Hand Against My Window • Deborah L. Davitt 27
A Touch of Lightning in the Soul • Deborah L. Davitt 28
The Witch’s Cat • Deborah L. Davitt 28
Beneath the Fullest Moon • Ashley Dioses 29
Dragons Guard Our Family Fortune • Adele Gardner 30
Last Contact • Jean-Paul L. Garnier 31
The Mollusk God • Maxwell Ian Gold 32
Tree Limbs Block the Road • Patricia Gomes 32
Lucky & His Dad • Alan Ira Gordon 33
The Crib • Vince Gotera 34
A Soldier Writes His Wife • Vince Gotera 35
First Contact • Robin Rose Graves 36
Teddy Bear Diner • Michael H. Hanson 38
Hungry Ghost • Millie Ho 38
Ignorance, my prophylactic • Akua Lezli Hope 40
Dolly Waits • Juleigh Howard-Hobson 41
That is not what I meant at all • Brian Hugenbruch 41
“Flee”—The Last Dispatch from the Jemison Station • Maya C. James 42
Requiem • Clay F. Johnson 42
Form Factor • Tim Jones 44
Family Historian • Herb Kauderer 45
Cave Painting • Oliver Keane 46
Posle Nas • Rosalie Morales Kearns 46
Star Trip • M. X. Kelly 48
Witching • Erin Kirsh 48
Life Goes On • David C. Kopaska-Merkel 49
We sell skin on sale • Rachel Lachmansingh 51
The Forest in the Full of the Moon • Geoffrey A. Landis 51
Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins • Geoffrey A. Landis 52
The Cat’s Epilogue • Mary Soon Lee 53
Cavall • Mary Soon Lee 55
What Phoenixes Read • Mary Soon Lee 55
Darning • Sandra J. Lindow 56
Rapunzel at Seventy • Sandra J. Lindow 57
Grass Whisperer • Lynne M. MacLean 57
Lovely Ludwig Van • Alessandro Manzetti 59
Kings and Queens of Narnia • Meep Matsushima 60
Black Water, Black Bones • Michelle Muenzler 60
Libations • Soonest Nathaniel 61
Cento for Lagahoos • Brandon O’Brien 62
Mountain • Cindy O’Quinn 63
You Were With Me • Cindy O’Quinn 63
the 2021 Rhysling Anthology xvii
The Krakeness • K. A. Opperman 64
On the Edge of Forever • Josh Pearce 65
Fin • Terese Mason Pierre 66
Like Clockwork • Christina M. Rau 67
Bar Scene • John Reinhart 68
It Feels Like Drowning • Terrie Leigh Relf 68
Fear of police, but as sci-fi, because /that/ you can understand -or, less
passive aggressively- get these fucking phasers out of my face
• J. C. Rodriguez 69
Invocation of my guardian angel in six sexts • Camille Rosas 70
Arrival Mind • Louis B. Rosenberg 71
Of fairy tales— • David F. Shultz 73
People Dropping Dead in the Mall Parking Lot • Alan Ray Simmons 74
Journey’s End • Marge Simon 75
Old Playfellow • Noel Sloboda 76
Riding the Exhale • Angela Yuriko Smith 77
The Deer • Christina Sng 78
Dream Weaver • Blaize Kelly Strothers 79
The Selkie Wife • Marcie Lynn Tentchoff 80
Andromeda’s Lament • Gretchen Tessmer 81
End Credits • Gretchen Tessmer 82
A Tempest • Sheree Renée Thomas 83
Why did white people conquer the world for spices and then never use
them? • R. Thursday 84
King Pest • Richard L. Tierney 86
Athena Holds Up a Mirror to Strength • Ali Trotta 87
Persephone’s Sneakers • Amanda Trout 88
Extinction No. 6 • Morgan L. Ventura 88
Unlooping • Marie Vibbert 89
Acacia • Holly Lyn Walrath 90
we are all energy • M. Darusha Wehm 90
The Paper Effigies Shop • Deborah Wong 91
[hand-me-down] • Greer Woodward 92

Long Poems First Published in 2020

And It Was Bad • Anne Carly Abad 95
The Looking Glass • Colleen Anderson 96
Snow White’s Apples • Colleen Anderson 98
Time Traveller’s Memory • Davian Aw 100
Regarding • F. J. Bergmann 105
The Riches of the Cloud Country • Ruth Berman 108
Eleven exhibits in a better Natural History Museum, London
• Jenny Blackford 110
The priestess’s daughter • Jenny Blackford 112
The Third Sister • Andrea Blythe 116
Parabiont • Robert Borski 117
Devilish Incantations • Bruce Boston 120
Wishes • Jennifer Bushroe 123
Learning the Way • Sarah Cannavo 124
Mrs. Housekeeper • Beth Cato 126
My Cat, He • Beth Cato 128
Cursebody • May Chong 130
Municipal Ghosts • May Chong 132
La Bête: The Beast of Gévaudan • Frank Coffman 134
The Wheel of the Year • Frank Coffman 138
The Imp and the Bottle • Sharon Cote 146
The King of Eyes • PS Cottier 148
Twisted Sayings • Ashley Dioses 149
After the Decipherment • FJ Doucet 151
Penelope, the truth • Clarabelle Fields 154
The Mad Scientist to the Muse of Her Dreams • Adele Gardner 156
Odysseus Grins at Fate and the Gods • Adele Gardner 158
Seven Steps to Reach Your Father across the Great Divide • Adele Gardner 159
Cellars, Caskets, and Closets • Maxwell I. Gold 162
The Secret Ingredient is Always the Same • Sarah Grey 164
Fermi’s Spaceship • Jamal Hodge 167
Igbo Landing • Akua Lezli Hope 169
First Turn • Juleigh Howard-Hobson 170
The Finger • Abi Hynes 172
An Offering • Michael Janairo 174
The Emerald Witch Stone • Clay F. Johnson 176
The First Dragon • Herb Kauderer 179
The Unicorn Insane • Herb Kauderer 181
Dictionary of the Lost • Luke Kernan 183
Robo Sapiens Thinks He Thinks • Geoffrey A. Landis 185
Ford • Mary Soon Lee 187
Jumble • Mary Soon Lee 193
Two Weeks • Mary Soon Lee 196
Invisible Ink • Gerri Leen 198
Social Graces • Lori R. Lopez 201
The Whistle Stop • Lori R. Lopez 204
The Son-in-law from Hell • LindaAnn LoSchiavo 208
Budapest • S. Qiouyi Lu 210
Alice • Alessandro Manzetti 215
the cage • Alessandro Manzetti 217
The Believers • Meep Matsushima 219
Nephele, On Friday • Elizabeth R. McClellan 221
There Must Be Blood • Elizabeth R. McClellan 224
lagahoo culture • Brandon O’Brien 226
Mise-en-scène • Suphil Lee Park 229
Next! • Michael H. Payne 231
Caged • Marsheila Rockwell 233
Our Lady of the Acherontia • Allan Rozinski 236
Such Monstrous Births • Emily Smith 238
All that I have lost • Christina Sng 240
Dark Forest • Christina Sng 243
Hansel and Gretel • Christina Sng 245
Love Song of the Swamp Witch Scorned • Alena Sullivan 248
A Song from Bedlam • Nike Sulway 250
A Dish Best Served • Lisa Timpf 253
Daughters Saving Mothers • Holly Lyn Walrath 256
Language
English
Pages
286
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Independently Published
Release
April 05, 2021
ISBN 13
9798729264155

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