TOMORROW IS THE HISTORY CHANNEL WITH THE SOUND TURNED DOWN
TOMORROW IS THE HISTORY CHANNEL
WITH THE SOUND TURNED DOWN
by Howie Good
Our textbook compared
the heart to a furnace.
Or maybe it was the brain.
Blood provided the fuel
as you were falling asleep
or just walking along.
We would get stoned
before class. The teacher’s
wife and baby daughter
had died in a car wreck.
I think of it sometimes
when I see the Nazis
invading Poland again.
Howie Good opens his always introspective eyes on a voice
of visionary history as experiences observed by an amazing
capacity in a high quality of his language’s simplicity of
meaning for us all.