Kościół Ducha Świętego, Osiedle Piasta

sunday morning / pigeons startled off

by church bell song / cacophony

poles robed in sunday clothes / perfumed grandmothers

in beads & tiger prints / sandaled men still paint stained

ribboned children / stockings & slicked hair

sky baby blue / white white steps

mass / already started, ringing out

someone sickbreath coughs / pews

smell of wood / hush.

by the bridge, flower wreaths / of

goldenrod & thistle

by the garden, mary weeps / enshrined

by plums / fermenting

names / run pass black stone / lost somewhere,

somewhere,

siberia

on sundays / the living haunt graves & light candles & buy

wild blueberries / in the market