SONG FOR RECESSIONARY TIMES

 

The days pass in shaving my beard

and then growing it back,

 

but notwithstanding the tall buildings,

it’s spring by the calendar

 

and lewd as the hot, blue tongue

of an acetylene torch.

 

 

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.