Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century
by Howie Good

A cottage in the woods.
A woman weeping at the table.

 

A wolf with eyes like red slits
spying through the window.

 

A wood-cutter passing,
an ax on his shoulder

 

and his thoughts faraway.
Another night on earth

 

preparing to fall.

 

HOWIE GOOD, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of eight poetry chapbooks. He has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and twice for the Best of the Net anthology. His first full-length book of poetry, Lovesick, is forthcoming from The Poetry Press of Press Americana.

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