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Two poems by Howie Good
Elegy for a Poem Accepted But Never Published
Assembled from titles of artworks by Marilyn Lerner,
Sophia Narrett, Anton van Dalen, and Ronald Lockett
1
But does it float
back and forth
still burning
white bird
yellow sky
cool light
nostalgic
for the future
2
No one warned me
before I stepped
inside the room
for the first time,
the walls covered
with pictures of Jesus
and people who
look like Jesus.
Yes, so very awful.
Once something
has lived it can
never really die.