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| "Church" Painting by Jonathan Burstein. Source: Street Spirit |
There’ll be cages of fireflies.
Darkness will be just as much
a true color as red or white
or blue.
Drunk college students
will crowd into the street
during the news
and then vanish again
when the game show resumes.
I will warm my hands
over a trash can fire,
staring up in consternation
at the grim parables
lavishly retold in stained glass.
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 Dagger from Right Hand Pointing, To Shadowy Blue from Gold Wake Press and Love in a Time of Paranoia from Diamond Point Press.
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