by Howie Good
No more declarations,
no more petitions for redress of grievances,
no more looking back over my shoulder,
but only simple tasks,
putting in ten dollars’ worth of gas,
enough to get to Lake Chodikee,
then lifting the kayak off the roof
and out onto flat water,
startling the doe come down to drink
as I glide around the bend
and the leaves shed their shadows on me.
Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of eight poetry chapbooks, including Tomorrowland (2008) from Achilles Chapbooks and Love Is a UFO (2009) from Pudding House. His full-length book of poetry, Lovesick, is due out from Press Americana this summer.
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