Muse

by Howie Good

This place, I was told, wasn’t safe. Why maybe the line to get in was out the door. I took a toke of a pre-roll. A bunch of hobos were also hanging around in hopes of a handout or a word with her or even just a glimpse. I actually saw her. She was off in a corner dancing by herself, the cool jazz on the turntable like the subtle glow of anomalous snow under a devastating desert sun.

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Howie Good is a professor emeritus at SUNY New Paltz whose newest poetry books, The Dark and Akimbo, are available from Sacred Parasite, a Berlin-based publisher.