The Lead Pastor's Visit

Nov 14

by Riv Wren

He pastored thousands,
but he came to this very house,

appeared in this very hallway,
and there he stood, with that hair.

I expected a tiny microphone
along his cheekbone.

Since he didn’t have one,
he could not talk.

I watched from the window
as his eighteen-wheeler

roared off the driveway,
climbed the curb,

and could not round
our cul-de-sac

or return to the straight lanes
of the main drag.

Riv Wren lives in Loveland, Ohio. That is a real place. Wren's most recent poems appear in Pensive Journal and Cathexis Northwest.

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