A Poem by Howie Good

LOVE NOTE ON CHEAP PAPER

Every day has become

something like crossing

the time zones of hell

a feeling of being sullenly

present in the world

and even then by proxy

when all I only want to see

is what might be seen

if my heart were a lantern

a red tree, blue horses, you

Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of nine poetry chapbooks, most recently Visiting the Dead (2009) from Flutter Press.