Lost Jacket Blues
The last time I saw it
it was stepping off
the curb between
two parked cars
in Cleveland,
its pockets empty
but for her hands,
its top button loose
and dangling
like the head
of a hanged Nazi,
though others swear
they’ve since
seen it from behind
and in the somber
company of rain,
notwithstanding which
I miss it, sometimes.
Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of five poetry chapbooks, Death of the Frog Prince (2004), Heartland (2007), and Apocalypse Mambo (forthcoming) from FootHills Publishing, Strangers & Angels (2007) from Scintillating Publications, and the e-book, Police & Questions, (forthcoming) from Right Hand Pointing.