by Howie Good
Chilly
rain
rattles
down
like
a metal
grate
over
a storefront.
Fist,
stick,
rock,
knife,
gun –
nothing
else
grows.
Anyone
still alive
tomorrow
will live
amid
lightning
bolts
& silent
bells.
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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