“MY AUTHOR PHOTO,” by Howie Good
by MP
Like a lace-
bordered
handkerchief
used to mop
up fires,
a gold
Ecuadorian
doubloon
the sun
has begun
to melt,
a look that says,
If anyone
finds a key
to a Volkswagen,
please
let me know.
MP
Like a lace-
bordered
handkerchief
used to mop
up fires,
a gold
Ecuadorian
doubloon
the sun
has begun
to melt,
a look that says,
If anyone
finds a key
to a Volkswagen,
please
let me know.
MP 
It’s a tired thing to say a poem inspires us. Unless it’s true. And it is for me with this poem by Howie Good.
What a tender stroke is this.
Ditto!