THE BEREAVED

1

I mash down on the brake. 

Hardly anyone ever mentions 

just how slippery blood is. 

2

That son of a bitch, my heart, 

waving and shouting 

what sounds like hi! Hi! 

when there’s nobody there 

but clocks and mirrors. 

3

Many suicides 

are misclassified 

as accidents. 

Then it’s spring.

Howie Good

Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of the 2011 poetry collection, Dreaming in Red, from Right Hand Pointing. All proceeds from the sale of the book goto a charity, which you can read about here:  HYPERLINK "https://sites.google.com/site/rhplanding/howie-good-dreaming-in-red" https://sites.google.com/site/rhplanding/howie-good-dreaming-in-red