by Howie Good
“Everything
I leave
behind,”
a dying
Thoreau
instructed,
“is to be
burned.”
Birds ignite
in mid-air.
Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Cryptic Endearments from Knives Forks & Spoons Press. He has a number of chapbooks forthcoming, including Elephant Gun from Dog on
a Chain Press. His poetry has been nominated multiple times for the
Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net anthology. goodh51(at)gmail.com.