Saturday, September 10, 2011

OVER OUR CITIES GRASS WILL GROW

by Howie Good


Based on sentences in the online edition of The New York Times, August 9, 2011:

The flames get worse.
There’s these silver pieces
just floating in the air

and dust and broken glass.

It’s kind of beautiful in a way.
I start crying.


Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of the full-length poetry collections Lovesick (Press Americana, 2009), Heart With a Dirty Windshield (BeWrite Books, 2010), and Everything Reminds Me of Me (Desperanto, 2011), as well as numerous print and digital poetry chapbooks, including most recently Love in a Time of Paranoia from Diamond Point Press, Inspired Remnants from Red Ceilings Press and The Penalty for Trying from Ten Pages Press.
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