One sustained Alleluia kisses
the psalmodic couch, the sanctified
family photos, and the unstained
glass window where I see a monk-
neighbor in medieval bathrobe find
that he has no mail, reaching into
the emptiness and coming out
with his blessed hand.
Ron Riekki’s books include U.P.: a novel; The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works; Here: Women Writing on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula; and And Here: 100 Years of Upper Peninsula Writing, 1917-2017 (Michigan State University Press, 2017).
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, under GNU Free Documentation License
