Aria for my Daughter
by Howie Good
She hears the slow thunder of a piano.
She wonders where exactly she is –
a new suburb of disappointment, perhaps.
She follows the red thread of the wind
as it twists inland.
She passes a huddle of secretaries
on their smoking break.
She can describe if they ask
the feeling of floating above thunder
on her belly and then her back.
She sees out the corner of her eye buildings
dissolving into particles and waves.
She tilts her face as for a kiss.
She sings in Italian though she’s never spoken it.
Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of six poetry chapbooks, most recently Tomorrowland (2008) from Achilles Chapbooks. He has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and twice for the Best of the Net anthology.
