by Howie Good
Birds igniting
in midair.
Women
whose skin
hangs
from them
like a kimono.
Would it not
be wondrous
for this whole
nation to be
destroyed
like a beautiful
flower?
Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of 18 print and digital poetry chapbooks and a full-length collection of poetry, Lovesick (2009).
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