Howie Good

 

 

Police and Questions

 
Love During Wartime

 

  Time to crack open that bottle
the previous tenant bequeathed us.

We can drink to whatever you want –
lack of sleep, importunate prayers,
another day of freedom from the landlord’s

fretful knock – then tumble into bed,
our bones loosened, our minds in happy
disarray, despite, or perhaps because,

it’s now light, and there’s a kind of war
outside our window, and the invisible sniper
in the gaunt bell tower is always watching

with bloodshot eyes for a clean shot.





 

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