D(r)one

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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.

Richard Hoffman

has published four volumes of poetry: Without Paradise (Cedar Hill, 2002); Gold Star Road (Barrow Street, 2007), winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club; Emblem (Barrow Street, 2011); and his new col- lection, Noon until Night (Barrow Street, 2017). His other books include the memoirs Half the House (reissued by New Rivers Press in 2015) and Love & Fury (Beacon, 2014), and the story collection Interference and Other Stories (New Rivers, 2009). He is senior writer-in-residence at Emerson College in Boston and an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University.

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