One Sentence Poems

Howie Good To a Student Who Asks, ‘Can I Do Something for Extra Credit?’ When refugees from the fighting drown trying to reach shore, you can memorialize the spot with plastic flowers, dead flies, and drawings of frowny faces, before resolutely going back to whatever it is you ordinarily do worlds away from the dark […]

Howie Good Muse And despite having hair like a fantastic tree and difficulty getting on and off escalators, you arrive the same way light does, remarkable and beautiful, simultaneously burning and bathing everything. Here comes the story of Howie Good, the man the authorities came to blame for somethin’ that he never done.

Howie Good In the Throes of Divination  A man not unlike you or even me who is camping overnight in the woods wakes up with a start from a dream of a bear with dripping jaws biting his head to discover a bear with dripping jaws is biting his head.    Howie Good says you […]

Howie Good Yoko Ono at MoMA Light a match and watch till it goes out, a painting made to be seen in the dark. Source: Titles of conceptual works from current one-woman show. Howie Good has a brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat.

Howie Good Real Cool You can’t tell whether  we’re upside down or right side up,  you can’t tell what’s here,  a typo or gilt lettering on glass, but those real cool sounds are coming, like when we were young and did it anytime, anywhere (floor, office chair, shower), only with a yes and incidental light. […]

Howie Good Roadkill I saw it and swerved, but when I glanced in the rearview mirror, there was a black splotch in the center of the road, and for the rest of the day, the first day of hot weather, I felt a quiet sadness like the last video store in existence had closed. Howie […]

Howie Good Ode to Selfies The star- shaped holes twinkled and undulated and seemed to encourage selfies, but as I lifted my phone, I saw my face splinter into many tiny, incomplete truths, little details like clues that it’s spring,  a car found abandoned on a suicide bridge, still running. Howie Good will give anything […]

Howie Good After the Frost Then like that it’s spring a young driver nervously steering a green minivan down our street & smack into a tree. Howie Good continues to confuse ordinary posts on Facebook with Onion articles, and vice versa.