Sorrow’s Room

by

Howard Good

The room where the deserter exchanges clothes with me,

the room where the windows look out on silence,
the room where the radio plays your parents’ wedding song,

the room where the shadows hatch like spider eggs,
the room where the children we once were are still crying,

the room where the woman licks the salt off words,
the room where the ocean seeps under the door,

the room where the dead glumly empty their pockets,
the room where the executioner’s ax leans against the wall,

the room, the one you’re in, where nothing ever happens.

 

 

 

Howard Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of the poetry chapbook, Death of the Frog Prince (FootHills Publishing, 2004). His poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including Right Hand Pointing, Stirring, Slow Trains, Poetry Bay, Sidewalk’s End, Plum Ruby Review, Wilmington Blues, 2River View, Prairie Poetry, Lily, and The Rose & Thorn.

 

 

 

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