D(r)one

What was done was done
in our names; we ourselves

would never have done
what was done to anyone.

We wanted to be good,
polite, obedient, fun,

wanted only not to ever
ask What have we done?

And yet, in our names,
what was done was done.

Credit

Author

Richard Hoffman

Richard Hoffman is the author of four poetry collections: Noon until Night (Barrow Street Press, 2017); Emblem (Barrow Street Press, 2011); Gold Star Road (Barrow Street Press, 2007), winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club; and Without Paradise (Cedar Hill Books, 2002).

Date Published

11/12/2018