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| Syrian refugees take part in a protest in Tripoli, northern Lebanon. Image source: alarabiya. |
I want a clock without hands,
and someone to agree
that the moon looks
just like a frozen scream.
I want to find a tattoo
of a woman’s name
when I roll up my sleeve,
and for the millions
that regimes have murdered
to cross back over
on a bridge of bones.
I want to bang on a can
to spread the alarm.
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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