Rodney Jones featured on The Kenyon Review’s Weekend Reads

A poem by faculty member Rodney Jones appears online as a part of Kenyon Review‘s Weekend Reads:

The Art of Heaven

 

In the middle of my life I came to a dark wood,
the smell of barbecue, kids running in the yards.
Not deep depression. The nice Hell of suburbs.
Speed bumps. The way things aren’t quite paradise.
Nights I read Speer’s Inside the Third Reich. He made
Hitler so amiable. It seemed important to see that.
There had been a murder in town. The victim
was Lucia’s student, a naturalist and promising poet.

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