Jenny George, author of The Dream of Reason, is the winner of a Discovery Poetry Prize and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize. She earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in Santa Fe, where she helps run a foundation for Buddhist-based social justice.

The Gesture of Turning a Mask Around

by Jenny George
1.

—so this god is only wood
and holes,
a blank,

like the moon’s unlit side,
the side without grammar—


2.
I stand alone under the stars,
audience to an immense quiet.
People on couch
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