Blind as I Am
Joseph Hardy
I’d like to avoid
the rehash
empty circles
​
familiar dead-ends
and repeated
truncating addiction
​
reduction
in alcohol dulling pain from here
back to the same here.
​
Though here resides
within the divine
disorder
maelstrom
chaos
mishigas
dark matter
more than half
of the universe,
​
I still hope we stumble
together, touch
the same elephant, pray
to the same light.
​​​​​​BIO
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Joseph Hardy, a reformed human resource consultant, lives with
his wife in Nashville, Tennessee. His poetry has been published in: Appalachian Review, Cold Mountain Review, Inlandia, Plainsongs, and Poet Lore among others. He is the author of two books of poetry, The Only Light Coming In and Becoming Sky, by Bambaz Press Los Angeles, and a picture book, At the Reading of the Will—And a Boy’s Life Thereafter, by IngramSpark.