I have managed to get myself into print.
my very first poem in print has appeared in another publication from @electrifyingwomen.
their website is electrifyingwomen/org/events.
the publication is called “things fall apart: mischievous machines”
the breif was to write a piece in dark humour celebrating an invention by a women when it misbehaves. the following was my contrabution.
Circular finger eater
Tabitha Babbitt was her tag,
Inventor of father’s fingers thief.
She saw the pit saws of 1813,
her idea Lumber mill bound
finding perspiration stomach-turning,
upon the skin of those working for her man.
round and round and around her mind went.
Tooth of saw blade spinning
In her mind’s eye
Stopping the effort of pit saw
With spinning steel finger eater.
My father’s long-lost fingers itching,
To grasp again the pit saw handle
After chew chew chew of the spinning steel
Fingers cringe at Tabitha’s steel toothed ogre.
Dec 2020 rogleach
perspective poetry 
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