Howie Good
The Desert of the Real
They say the truth is self-evident, but passers-by
regularly avert their gaze, and I myself have only
ever seen what I have wanted to see, never once
suspecting that all the time I thought I was moving
toward something I was moving even farther away,
a silver airship in flames careening out of control
over a wasteland dotted with statues of the dead.
Howie Good is a noted writer of blurbs for other people’s poetry books.