Howie Good

Mortal Dreams

Your old sick heart is powering down, becoming hesitant and vague, indistinguishable. So you board a train with the idea of appearing that night as a significant figure in another person’s dream. The trip seems to take longer every time you make it. When you finally arrive, ballet dancers rise on their toes. You don’t stop to admire their athleticism. The situation that awaits you across town doesn’t allow for it. You flag a taxi, climb in the back, state an address. The taxi lurches into motion. By now it’s dusk, and the dead petals of the world are falling.

Howie Good

Mortal Dreams

H. Good is the author of three recent collections, I'm Not a Robot from Tolsun Books, The Titanic Sails at Dawn from Alien Buddha Press, and What It Is and How to Use It from Grey Book Press. Volume 5 - February 2020

H. Good is the author of three recent collections, I'm Not a Robot from Tolsun Books, The Titanic Sails at Dawn from Alien Buddha Press, and What It Is and How to Use It from Grey Book Press.

Volume 5 - February 2020