Night of the Following Day

The person I went to sleep as wasn’t the same person I woke up as, half-drowned in sweat, the actual physical residue of dreams, after traveling on motherless roads all night, seeing laughter immediately evaporate on contact with the air, families forced to dig their own graves at gunpoint, plants and animals bombed into submission, only for me to arrive some six hours later back where I started but feeling barely present, like I was still miles and miles away from the redwing blackbird on the black branch.

Howie Good's latest book, Frowny Face (Redhawk Publishing, 2023), is a synergistic mix of his prose poems and handmade collages. He co-edits the online journal UnLost, dedicated to found poetry.