diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index fa35c9b65..951d54d26 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "tomtoolkit"  # must match PyPI package name
 packages = [ # tell poetry build that the repo is named tom_base (which != name, above)
-    { include="*", from="." },
+    { include="tom_base", from=".." },
 ]
 version = "0.0.0"  # version supplied by poetry-dynamic-versioning
 description = "TOM Toolkit and base modules"