COMING ATTRACTIONS
By Howie Good


As mourners do,
I’ll cover the mirrors

before I go out
and still arrive in time

for the last showing.
The seats around me

will all be empty,
but toward the end,

when even the music stops
caring what happens next,

the heavy-set usherette
will prowl the aisles

of another gloomy day.
She’ll be there and then

she won’t, and she’ll shine
her stinging light in my face.

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Howie Good is the author of 10 poetry chapbooks, including Visiting the Dead (2009) from Flutter Press and Still Life With Firearms (2009) from Right Hand Pointing, available at http://www.righthandpointing.com/firearms/ His first full-length collection of poetry, Lovesick, has just been published by Press Americana (for more information, visit
http://www.americanpopularculture.com/press_americana.htm). His poetry has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and four times for the Best of the Net anthology.

THE PROFESSOR OF REGRET
By Howie Good


It’s more of an effort
than it should be

for you to go
from one room

to the next.
A dog wearing

a strangely
human expression

follows you out.
At some point

a person notices
the sound of crying

disturbing the leaves
and the light

on the crumbling
ledges of clouds

or doesn’t.

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Howie Good is the author of 10 poetry chapbooks, including Visiting the Dead (2009) from Flutter Press and Still Life With Firearms (2009) from Right Hand Pointing, available at http://www.righthandpointing.com/firearms/ His first full-length collection of poetry, Lovesick, has just been published by Press Americana (for more information, visit
http://www.americanpopularculture.com/press_americana.htm). His poetry has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and four times for the Best of the Net anthology.