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SEVEN DAYS UNTIL PITCHERS AND CATCHERS REPORT
by Howie Good
After midnight
& running
my hand
along the long wall
in the dark
feeling
for the light switch
that I know
must be there
Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of the 2013 chapbooks Echo's Bones and Danger Falling Debris, both from Red Bird Chapbooks. He co-edits White Knuckle Press with Dale Wisely.
