write the work

by Zary Fekete

Write the work.

Graveled drive.

Poet’s hive.

Reread. Resist. Write.

Lettre étrangère.

Étouffante au pair.

Pausing, musing. 

Daubing, choosing.

Widened field.

Years of yield.

Persist. Fail. Write.

Write the work.

Come back…

Attack.

Revise. Rephrase. Retype.

Pebbled slope.

Book-shaped hope.

Babaházat

Magyarázat

Write.

Write the work.

Consider.

Fritter.

Place in space.

Efface, erase.

Rows to tend.

Personally offend.

Amend.

Send.

Write.

Zary Fekete has worked as a teacher in Hungary, Moldova, Romania, China, and Cambodia, and currently lives and works as a writer in Minnesota. Zary has a debut chapbook of short stories coming in February 2023 from Alien Buddha Press and a novelette (In the Beginning) coming out in May from ELJ Publications. Twitter: @ZaryFekete