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{heart problems} howie good 1 I watch for the warning signs – bats and owls taking flight and the light of day wearing a dirty green raincoat. 2 Something knocks twice upon my heart without entering. If this were a movie, the police would ignore me when I told them what I knew or at least suspected. 3 A snow of petals begins to fall from the trees. I wade in up to my waist. There isn’t always that great a difference between a funeral and a carnival. 4 In one instance, I hid the baby under all the debris. Not everybody could tell that I was being ironic. 5 Brown-and-white cows drift toward a red barn. You call it “Arrangement in Gray and Black, No. 1.” Sometimes what look like stars to the naked eye are really only planets. 6 In New York City, even lovers travel underground. Girl with acetylene green eyes, why wait? The going always seems so much longer than the coming back. 7 Night and day seldom start on time. I appear in other people’s dreams, regardless. 8 A dying rocket tumbles into the parking lot behind the diner. On another day, it might have been a poet committing suicide for attention. 9 The leaves are bordered in black. You fuck me so hard that tyrants and martyrs stand in the rain along the funeral route sobbing. 10 I myself enjoy the ungainly spectacle of machines on fire, and when I wake up on the floor, it’s officially summer and next to a big pile of sunglasses. |
