Ars Poetica by Howie Good

Arrange
3 lbs.
in a pyramid.

Not just
the words,

but also
the gaps
in-between.

It’s all
the same

ocean.


Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection The Middle of Nowhere (Olivia Eden Publishing). His latest chapbooks are Echo's Bones and Danger Falling Debris (Red Bird Chapbooks). He co-edits White Knuckle Press with Dale Wisely.