Howie Good - The Late News
It’s what happens when you overthink, a cloud of birds boils up from the field behind the house as if the country all around were burning, and sitting there with your head in your hands, how do you know it isn’t? I used to worry about the portable electric hair dryer shorting out, which would come first, 36 months or 30,000 miles, a cop, big gut hanging over his gun belt, who walks like he’s got crotch rot, and then one night I heard screams, saw refugees wheeling carts through the village, their faces muddily lit by the solicitous flames, and now the bridge lights look diamond-like in the distance, and the woman in the Laundromat, still young but never pretty, bears the same name as a province in France, and now silver ribbons of rain are tangled in your hair. Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of six poetry chapbooks, including most recently Tomorrowland (2008) from Achilles Chapbooks. He has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and twice for the Best of the Net anthology. |  Emir Ozsahin is a photographer from Turkey. More of his works can be found on his deviantART page or his Flickr account. |
