back into the zombie week

news flash: contract passed with 85% yes-sir votes ... wonder how many actual votes they had. not that it mattered. no idea as of now when it goes into effect, or when we'll get a new contract book. Only took them 5 years last time ....

back on night shift starting tonight .... so no updates for a bit, as i stroll into what is known here as "the zombie week" ...

another from 1992, published in Muse Of Fire in 1997, another small magazine venue. support them small presses folks. they need and deserve it, really.


FIVE DAYS WRITING A LETTER

i spent five days writing a letter

tore my soul into syllables
& offered them as scripture

five days & ten pages
before the fog & ice

shivering - examining the texture
tore my soul into syllables

& placed it all in the fires of refusal