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In Vino Veritas

A seagull rises in a white flurry from the blacktop with a series of heartrending shrieks, a
vocabulary very few of us understand, such a waste of wisdom. It's why Rimbaud, for all
his poetic genius, sighed in his lover Paul Verlaine's ear that sometimes he just wanted
to be a beggar in Africa. And yet ballsy acts of creation as destruction do occur. After a
day of drinking wine, for instance, I view things through a kind of reddish mist. "Stop
the car!" my passenger screams. "Let me out!" I push the accelerator all the way to the
floor.

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Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of The Loser's Guide to Street Fighting, winner of the 2017 Lorien Prize from Thoughtcrime Press, and Dangerous Acts Starring Unstable Elements, winner of the 2015 Press Americana Prize for Poetry.