Richard Hoffman has published four volumes of poetry: Without Paradise; Gold Star Road, winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club; Emblem; and his new collection, Noon until Night. His other books include the memoirs Half the House and Love & Fury, and the story collection Interference and Other Stories. He is senior writer in residence at Emerson College in Boston and an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University.
Mike Schaffner, “Angel of Grief,” Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Texas / Flickr
In Which I Try to Imagine Justice
without a thought to efficiency, without a thought
to deadlines, wit…