The Lighthouse of the Bride

 

by Howie Good

 

 

 

 

1

 

 

Fresh widow.

To be looked at

with one eye,

close to,

for nearly an hour.

 

 

 

 

2

 

 

Sad young man on a train.

Why not sneeze?

With hidden noise.

 

 

 

 

3

 

 

Bicycle wheel.  Revolving glass.

The king and queen

surrounded by swift nudes.

 

 

 

 

4

 

 

The passage

from the virgin

to the bride.

Network

of stoppages.

In advance

of the broken arm.

 

 

 

 

4

 

 

Emancipated metal.

 

The bride stripped bare

by her bachelors,

 

even.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Howie Good is a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz and is the author of the full-length poetry collections Lovesick (Press Americana, 2009), Heart With a Dirty Windshield (BeWrite Books, 2010) and Everything Reminds Me of Me (Desperanto, 2011).