THE LOVERS

We’re that hole a drunk punched in the sheetrock,

the kind of platitudinous advice everyone gives,

but no one ever takes, a couple of misfortune’s children

climbing through the squalor of noonday

who eat the wild berries that hang there in the heat

like drops of blood just about to drip.

 

 

Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University

of New York at New Paltz, is the author of four poetry

chapbooks, Death of the Frog Prince (2004) and Heartland

(2007) from FootHills Publishing, Strangers & Angels

(2007) from Scintillating Publications, and the

forthcoming The News at 11 from Right Hand Pointing.