On Being Forgiven
It’s approaching dusk,
and at dusk the birds
in the marsh revive
old conversations
to which I sometimes
stop to listen, but,
more often, don’t,
and still the Earth,
despite the offense,
bears my weight.
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Howie Good is a professor emeritus at SUNY New Paltz whose newest poetry books, The Dark and Akimbo, are available from Sacred Parasite, a Berlin-based publisher.