Available Light by Howie Good Just anyone can't go there, a museum of empty picture frames and blank canvases that’s in the process of being torn down, someplace special for elderly retirees with cameras hanging from their necks to visit. On a bench outside the museum, the former mansion of a child star, they discover a sleeping woman with a blue vase. Her sadly changed appearance comes through their cameras despite the meager available light. One old man has some questions for her. Questions can be formed in four different ways, but the easiest way is to just raise your voice at the end of a sentence. Can I bring my wheelchair? Are you gay? Is this real?
Howie Good's poetry collections include The Complete Absence of Twilight from MadHat Press and Fugitive Pieces from Right Hand Pointing Press.
Accompanying photo by Beverly Goodwin