A New Kind of Literary Pulse

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A New Kind of Literary Pulse

Los Angeles Public Library
Poetry  Contemporary Poetry - General Audience  1 min

Hope Against Hope

Howie Good

Howie Good

Howie Good is the author of more than a dozen poetry collections, including most recently The Death Row Shuffle (Finishing Line Press), The Trouble with Being Born (Ethel Micro Press), and Gunmetal Sky (Thirty West Publishing). "Hope Against Hope" is in Short Circuit #05, Short Édition's quarterly review.

I have seen this movie before,
I know how it ends, with troops in the streets,
and the charred bones of buildings,
so I turn away from the ruthless images,
and, just as quietly as I can, lean
on the railing of the back deck
and wait for the gray fox to appear
from the dark tangled underbrush
into an evanescent strip of bright sunlight.

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