for Sarah M. & Tom C.
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| Tyne Cot cemetery on the Ypres Salient, Belgium. |
a cold
misty rain
poplars
stand
at attention
as
we wander
jet-lagged
down rows
& rows
of gravestones
40,000
stubby
white teeth
bared
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.