A BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY ON THE VERGE OF UNDERSTANDING
Her heart moves in
with my heart.
At dinner she stares down
without appetite at the roses
clotting on the plate.
I ask how her day was.
She shrugs – her heart
doesn’t consider
languishment and pain
to be subjects
for dinner conversation.
But sometimes it wonders
just what took place
before it got here
that night trembles
under the table,
waiting for scraps.
Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University
of New York at New Paltz, is the author of eight poetry
chapbooks, including Police and Questions from Right Hand
Pointing (2008), Tomorrowland (2008) from Achilles
Chapbooks, The Torturer’s Horse (2009) from Recycled Karma
Press, and Love Is a UFO (2009) from Pudding House.
ohhhhhh… this is delicious