Soul's Battle

Amuck in this life, she fights and bumbles Onward and forward she kicks and stumbles Easily, angrily, quickly she grumbles While in the distance dark thunder rumbles. At last she falters, listens, then mumbles “Good God!” and into oblivion tumbles. “Soul’s Battle” first appeared in the Dead of Night Newsletter, July 1994, then collected in Lake of the Devil: Poems of Morosity and Jest (Duck's-foot Tree Productions, 1995) limited to 75 copies. It was included in the poetry section of the omnibus edition of novel, poems, and tales Anthony Shriek: His Doleful Adventures; or, Lovers of Another Realm (Centipede Press, 2017). It is also included in my forthcoming Hippocampus Press collection The Ghost Garden and Further Spirits.