“We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.”
Steve King (U.S. Representative, Republican-Iowa)
You are not you,
not the you
you assume.
The cells in your body
have been replaced.
Monuments once cherished
have been, are being,
will be effaced
by rain, by salt.
There is no you, not fixed,
at least. At most,
you is a concept, a fiction,
a boast. It is no more
here than wind
passing through,
breath of a ghost.
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Jeff Hardin is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Small Revolution and No Other Kind of World. His sixth collection, A Clearing Space in the Middle of Being, is forthcoming. His poems appear in The Southern Review, Hudson Review, The Cortland Review, North American Review, and elsewhere. He lives and teaches in TN.
Photo by Gage Skidmore.
