Howie Good

In the darkening dusk, two boys, brothers by their bickering,

each equipped with sand pail and toy fishing net, comb

the shoreline for treasures, crabs and conch shells and seaweed,

so bent on their acquisitive task they forget to look up at the moon

hovering far out over the water, a round yellow diamond.

Howie Good is a writer living on Cape Cod. His new poetry book, The Dark, is available from Sacred Parasite, a Berlin-based publisher.