Dark City of Lights
Nazis built
a giant
bonfire.
The books
in my head
refused
to burn.
Oh, love,
come stand
with me
by the window,
and you’ll see
the sun,
after it’s
been out
boozing
all night,
pissing
in the Seine.
Howie Good, 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 29 print and digital poetry chapbooks.