Ringtone by Howie Good

I’ve a habit – an unfortunate one,
according to others – of leaving
the house without my cell phone.

Later I’ll run into someone who’ll
say, “I’ve been trying to reach you.”

Exactly.

Battered by coastal winds, stalks
of beach grass bend like commas

in a sentence that doesn’t need any.



Howie Good is a widely published but little-known poet.