Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of seven poetry chapbooks, including Tomorrowland (2008) from Achilles Chapbooks in print and The Torturer’s Horse (2009) from Recycled Karma Press online.
Summer 2009
Table of Contents - Vol. V, No. 2
Poetry Essays Translations Fiction
Howie Good
The older kids at camp show us how.
I can’t always hear
what it is they’re saying,
only the grave, conspiratorial tone
in which they say it.
But when the spray from the can
hits the flame of the Bic lighter,
Hiroshima!
I look around -- mountains, a river,
the suggestion of a sun.
And so many things to burn.
© Howie Good
