Home From the Cemetery By Howie Good

Yesterday was a difficult day. 

We buried my sister. 

Friends called her Stevie. 

Her name was Stephanie, 

and there was nothing 

Stephanie loved better 

probably than a townie bar 

with red leatherette booths 

and a worn pool table 

and a jukebox full of old 45’s. 

I’m 73 but feel a thousand. 

Weeds garnished the graves.

Howie Good is a professor emeritus at SUNY New Paltz whose poetry collections include The Dark and Akimbo, available from Sacred Parasite.