The History of Forever by Howie Good

Some 2,000 years ago, when Julius Caesar sentenced
a gang of pirates to be crucified, a slow, agonizing form
of death, geese migrated in a V-formation and autumn
painted the leaves startling colors, just as now, but before
the crosses on which the pirates were nailed were hoisted,
Caesar, in a rare show of mercy, personally cut their throats.



Howie Good is the author most recently of the poetry collections Gunmetal Sky (Thirty West Publishing) and Famous Long Ago (Laughing Ronin Press).