Strangers and Angels
A stranger, they say, might be an angel
unrecognizable in the diffuse light
and the enigma of his arrival
who looks at you as through eyeholes
cut unevenly in a brown paper bag
and relates with ghostwritten words
the events which are about to transpire,
who feels a terrible need to confess
there’s another person with your name,
the downcast face of a sunflower
after the birds have scoured it.
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~ Howard Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of the poetry chapbooks, Death of the Frog Prince (2004) and Heartland (2007), both from FootHills Publishing. His poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including Right Hand Pointing, Stirring, Flutter, The Elegant Thorn Review, The Rose & Thorn, 2River View, Prairie Poetry, Poetry Bay, Juked, ken*again, and Lily. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2006.
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