by David Feela
How strange to think of giving up financial stress!
Suddenly I see so clearly my tax rebate check
against the bank’s steel vault!
David Feela is a poet, free-lance writer, writing instructor, book collector, and thrift store pirate. His work has appeared in regional and national publications, including High Country News’s "Writers’s on the Range," Mountain Gazette, and in the newspaper as a "Colorado Voice" for The Denver Post. He is a contributing editor and columnist for Inside/Outside Southwest and for The Four Corners Free Press. A poetry chapbook, Thought Experiments (Maverick Press), won the Southwesr Poet Series. A new poetry book, The Home Atlas, will be released in 2009.
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