Regarding your workplace matter

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We are in receipt
of your correspondence of 3 June
and wish to advise
………….we have turned into geese and now
fly the dusk sky in formation,
white cloths on a line.

Some of the women – we must
suspect, those who used to
put up those printer-paper signs
above the dishwasher
………….– have stayed as women,
knitting us jumpers
from the crabbed-up staples
at the bottom of the bin,
with bloodied fingers
………….– but they will not catch us.

We laugh in our
………….new voices, like the high-low
shriek of a fire door
slamming.