MARIO CHARD

Mar


After the war disfigured
they gave men effigies of their faces
cast by sculptors.

They took sculptors
who learned first to mar,
that ruin

always precedes art,
and gave them soldiers.
Then soldiers they taught first

to mar effigies
of men
were given sculptors.

  
153  The Paris-American

Mario Chard was born in northern Utah and educated at Weber State University, Purdue University, and Stanford University as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, Colorado Review, FIELD, and Indiana Review, among others. A winner of the 2012 “Discovery” / Boston Review Poetry Prize, he currently writes and teaches in Utah where he lives with his wife and sons.

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