there.

 

Chad Lietz

from Fallow

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community means miles here:
                                     little but sky
                                    sky & green

tall farm riggings
                        steely tubed elevators
                        spiderlegging from silos
                        bins overfilled with corn

            & taller steeples still.

In a town with three churches
the only bank dries up: loans against
paper figures only
                                    a saturated market
                                    of starving mouths

nothing now certain
                                    but faith and neighbors.


            —Put your life in the hands of the Lord


not cathedral light
just pallid glow


            —This image we bear because
            he bore our burden


                                                Ecce Homo
                                                hands & holes


            —In this way he suffered
            and in this way we pray


                        an old German hymn
                        a Catholic cross

 

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