A Hard Face - April 19, 2026

Gary Hunter

Apr 19

1 min read

is hard to read

like a book without a title

or a black book

labeled with black letters

and one would guess

hiding a plot of murder, mystery,

tragedy or shocking revelation

and yet

the hardest faces I’ve risked

opening, revealed a fragile story,

a broken soul, poorly mended

a brittle human one

relatable enough that I will turn

their pages as gently as I do

my own story’s

and if anonymous histories

mirror much of each other,

then every hard face you see

is simply a different cover

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