appealing

The Maynard
Spring 2018

Libby Maxey
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Revelation on Baptist Hill

I decide that honesty is like a stone—
a small, straightedge, striated stone—
because I see it in the road
real and undisguised
unsusceptible to anything I think
and I kick it, hard, twice
and it makes me no apology.