WITH THE SOUND TURNED DOWN
Our textbook compared
the heart to a furnace.
Or maybe it was the brain.
Blood provided the fuel
as you were falling asleep
or just walking along.
We would get stoned
before class. The teacher’s
wife and baby daughter
had died in a car wreck.
I think of it sometimes
when I see the Nazis
invading Poland again.
© Howie Good 2010
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Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of 15 print and digital poetry chapbooks and the full-length collection of poetry, Lovesick (2009). His second full-length collection, Heart With a Dirty Windshield, will be published by BeWrite Books.
Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of 15 print and digital poetry chapbooks and the full-length collection of poetry, Lovesick (2009). His second full-length collection, Heart With a Dirty Windshield, will be published by BeWrite Books.
