for Graham
They’ll ask if you have a thief’s heart,
a knife hidden in your boot,
something else you’d rather do.
I myself am bad at riddles,
but before you answer,
consider just how you’ll feel
when the towers begin to rise
and the sky turns impossible colors
from all the ash in the air.
Howard Good, New Paltz
Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New
ReplyDeletePaltz, is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Death of the Frog Prince (2004)
and Heartland (2007), both from FootHills Publishing. He was recently
nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is the featured poet in the Autumn 2007
issue of The Grand Rapids Literary Review.