by Barbara A. Taylor
money power
buying selling
can slur
c h a r a c t e r
destroy a person’s
r e p u t a t I o n
hpprotest
hppretexts
hppretend
there’s pain
p o i s o n
on the board
a corporate
vendetta is at hand
woman on top
tall poppies
f a l l i n g
Barbara A. Taylor has published short fiction and poetry on www, in print in USA, Europe and Australia. She is a regular reader/slammer at local poetry nights. Barbara's work is published in or is forthcoming at Triplopia, The Blue Fifth Review, Wisteria, Tattoo Highway and The Yellow Bat Review: Journal of Contemporary Rhyme. Her poetry with audio is at <http://batsword.tripod.com>. The last stanza of "Revenge" is a haiku first published in Folly, 2006.