Heart of Hearts
By Howie Good


Let others be the dull former children
sleepwalking down the aisles of box stores,

the married scientists battling
killer cockroaches on TV,

the apparent suicide who trespassed
along the railroad tracks.

O frightened beneficiaries of the incidental!
She moves under me,

and as police congregate
just south of the train station,

my heart spreads like a crime spree
across four more states.

Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of eight poetry chapbooks, including Police and Questions from Right Hand Pointing (2008), Tomorrowland (2008) from Achilles Chapbooks, The Torturer’s Horse (2009) from Recycled Karma Press, and Love Is a UFO (2009) from Pudding House.

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