Howie Good

 

A LITTLE DEATH

Hear that?
Coyotes.
One got our cat.

It’s midnight,
but still hot
from the heat of day.

The bed springs
go weep, weep.

We lie panting
in the sudden
emptiness afterward,

wings coated
with ash.

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Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of the  poetry collection, Lovesick (2009). His second full-length collection, Heart With a Dirty Windshield, will be published by BeWrite Books.