another accepted in a small press magazine

this poem was printed in Steelhead Special, another small venue magazine. Crawdad Nelson is/was the editor. a working class poets magazine, and well worth discovering. Again, support those small presses.


anyway - got a lot more poems set-up in a file for future updates .... archives are open for review anytime, no appointments needed. comments are greatly appreciated and a humble thank-you for everyone who has stopped by and read any of this.

12:19:94

it was easier to plant trees
than to cut them,
though neither was really
enjoyable.

in the great Northwest
hardly a burner left,
& the few that are -
all rusted & falling down -
like the toys god forgot
how to use.
no more incense
burnt
for his pleasure.

old growth forests & spotted owls
under federal protection:
now mills run piss-fir
& second growth,
run hemlock snags &
some old farmers pecker-poles:
the saw dust remains
the same -
only now the waste is chipped
& sent to Weyerhaeuser
for paper pulp.

no longer old men remembering
the strikes, the deaths.
mostly old men waiting
for retirement,
hoping these few scattered mills
remain open
until them.

feeling like dinosaurs