Two in the Morning • Howie Good

Anyone
plagued
with self-
doubt
who
observed

the kind
of grief
that exists
at 2 a.m.

began
to sink
into
dementia,

shifted
around
mourning
doves
& sparrows,

arranging
their bodies
in lifelike
positions,

no one
knows
where.


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Howie Good's latest poetry collection is 
The Complete Absence of Twilight (2014) 
from MadHat Press. He co-edits White Knuckle 
Press with Dale Wisely, who does most of 
the real work.