From Carnets

From Carnets

Kevin Hart

X-3.
If the words rise up to meet you, it’s poetry.

X-47.
Everything good was created by God; the rest, by committee.

X-29.
The truth is whole but mostly found in scraps.

X-36.
When you contemplate, time flows around you not through you.

X-2.
Where hatred is, fear was.

X-15.
You don’t have to like the neighbor: love is quite enough.

X-48.
Fundamentalism is fast food.

X-27.
I walk into the field at dawn. I should have come here on my knees.

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Kevin Hart
Poet & Professor

Kevin Hart is Jo Rae Wright University Distinguished Professor at Duke Divinity School. These aphorisms come from Carnets (forthcoming from the Poiema Poetry Series and Cascade Books).

Photography by Lena Polishko