2020 / poetry / author

HOWIE GOOD

LYRIC

…

The line of stain shows
the flow of time. I can

take you there and you
can be back by sunset

if you want. There are
no checkpoints. Soon

there may not even be
forests. Everything that

doesn’t act like water
acts like fire. Be water:

blossom everywhere.

…

Howie Good, a professor in the Digital Media & Journalism Department at SUNY New Paltz, is the author most recently of Stick Figure Opera: 99 100-word Prose Poems from Cajun Mutt Press. He co-edits the online journals Unbroken and UnLost.

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