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WEATHER FOR DOGS

Sean Lenon 8:00 PM #NotMyPresident, #NoWallNoBan, #resist, #TheNewVerseNews, critics, defenestration, execution, Howie Good, poetry, police, Primo levi, red death, shadows, USA

by Howie Good

Mothers and babies fleeing the red death
disappeared down a hole in the sea. And
now what do we do? Chant, “USA! USA!”

Chant, “Build a wall.” This is weather
for dogs – bomb-sniffing dogs. No one
is safe. Police are throwing their critics

out windows. Here, as Primo discovered,
there isn’t any why. There’s always only
the creep of shadows. They move, we follow.

Howie Good is the recipient of the 2015 Press Americana Prize for Poetry for his new collection Dangerous Acts Starring Unstable Elements.