Why hope someone finds them,
steel-framed, plum-colored,
or regret you can’t make out
street signs without them,
why not consider yourself
freed from the necessity,
the situation as you know it
turning back into shadows,
and the shadows into gunmen
in topcoats and derbies.
Howie Good, USA
Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University
ReplyDeleteof New York at New Paltz, is the author of eight poetry
chapbooks. He has been nominated three times for a
Pushcart Prize and twice for the Best of the Net
anthology. His first full-length book of poetry, Lovesick,
is available from The Poetry Press of Press Americana.
Ominous, this.
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