Today's poem is by Justin Marks

Belief and Naivety
       

The face is a template of which
there are only so many versions

A country we no longer recognize
that is the country we've always recognized

but pretended we didn't
Our greatest sin

Anger that sustains itself with anger
about being angry

The ruin we inflict on the world
getting in the way

of the ruin we further seek
to inflict on the world

Dark highways illuminated
by hills on fire

The light in me
that is the light in you

that is the light
in all of us

A name
A memory

Heartbreak from which
there is no recovery

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from If This Should Reach You in Time
Barrelhouse Books
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