What Was That Sound? She Asks, a Poem by Howie Good

What Was That Sound? She Asks
by Howie Good

The flutelike
fingers of Paris
pickpockets

Only the wind
thinking to itself

The sun
up before
dawn

cleaning
the shotgun

Howie Good, Ph.D., a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of the full-length poetry collections Lovesick (Press Americana, 2009), Heart With a Dirty Windshield (BeWrite Books, 2010), and Everything Reminds Me of Me (Desperanto, 2011), as well as numerous print and digital poetry chapbooks, including most recently Love in a Time of Paranoia from Diamond Point Press, Inspired Remnants from Red Ceilings Press and The Penalty for Trying from Ten Pages Press.

Copyright 2011, Howie Good. © This work is protected under the U.S. copyright laws. It may not be reproduced, reprinted, reused, or altered without the expressed written permission of the author.