short-tempered Mt. Vesuvius
he erupted out of bed
hurling pyroclastic exclamations
into his cell phone
hot magma headache
spewing lava & steam bursts
falling into message piles
of anxious call-backs.
Though this is its first web appearance,
A Cinder Cone Day was first published in print in Star*Line #21.6,
November/December 1998 by the
Science Fiction Poetry Association.
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