ANOMALIES

1

The young look at me with curiosity –

one might even say anxiety –

my heart leaking green brake fluid,

and the queen of nothing on her knees

drinking from the puddle.

2

But who was it,

was it you,

who had the question

mark removed

from my Remington

upright typewriter

and buried

at night without

ceremony

SPRING, DELAYED

Birdsong alarm

don’t cry

I can feel broken idols

change trains

upturned hands

forfeit fire

uncle decay still trying

shhh tree

sleep

Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of seven poetry chapbooks, including Tomorrowland (2008) from Achilles Chapbooks in print and The Torturer’s Horse (2009) from Recycled Karma Press online.

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