PRISONERS OF LOVE
You signed the confession
they stuck in your hand,
at dusk the silhouettes
of armed guards
atop the cell-block wall.
Visiting day I bring you
a pair of dancing mice.
All the candles are burning
We watch baseball on TV
and cry at triples.
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Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of the poetry collection, Lovesick (2009). His second full-length collection, Heart With a Dirty Windshield, has been published by BeWrite Books.
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