THE PROFESSOR OF REGRET
By Howie Good


It’s more of an effort
than it should be

for you to go
from one room

to the next.
A dog wearing

a strangely
human expression

follows you out.
At some point

a person notices
the sound of crying

disturbing the leaves
and the light

on the crumbling
ledges of clouds

or doesn’t.

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Howie Good is the author of 10 poetry chapbooks, including Visiting the Dead (2009) from Flutter Press and Still Life With Firearms (2009) from Right Hand Pointing, available at http://www.righthandpointing.com/firearms/ His first full-length collection of poetry, Lovesick, has just been published by Press Americana (for more information, visit
http://www.americanpopularculture.com/press_americana.htm). His poetry has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and four times for the Best of the Net anthology.