by Howie Good
Can’t you feel it,
the troops dimly massing
on the border,
horses the color of doom
dragging cannons
along old lumber roads,
their hooves muffled with cloth,
as the collaborators among us
count down the days
till manic petals of snow
will be falling murderously
everywhere.
Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of six poetry chapbooks: Death of the Frog Prince (2004), Heartland (2007), and Apocalypse Mambo (forthcoming) from FootHills Publishing; Strangers & Angels (2007) from Scintillating Publications; the e-book, Police and Questions (2008), from Right Hand Pointing; and the e-book, Last Words (2008), from Gold Wake Press. He has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize and twice for the Best of the Net anthology.
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