On the airwaves
of memory floats
the voice of a child
chanting one one
thousand, two one
thousand, nothing
the least menacing
or even remarkable,
unless for you, just
as for me, the voice
lingers like the yellow
green of a faded bruise.
Howie Good is the author of Failed Haiku, a poetry collection that is the co-winner of the 2021 Grey Book Press Chapbook Contest. It is scheduled for publication in summer 2022.
62 beautiful syllables worth several reads
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