there.

 

Chad Lietz

from Fallow

 

Organ-bellows buzz
these Sundays
becomes instead
a coiled hum:

                        brass ring &
                        rings of ions
                        charged for here

or there // through
rafterbeam peaks of
                                    molded steeple
                                    stuccoed

                                                    cloud / white

                                                (jaggy Maya teeth of
                                                crooked tombstones)

pray yerself a song: to act it
                                     acting you—

                                                believe the world
                                                for you

                                                to abdicate
                                                these Sundays

                                                in old ways
                                                but new:

 

By gravel roads they come
in trucks & family sedans
to a town with three churches—

 

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