Night and the Distant Church
Forward abrupt
up
then mmm
mmm
wind mmm m
mmm
m
upon
the mm
mm
wind mmm m
mmm
into the mm wind
rain now and again
the mm
wind
ells
b
ells
b
[Heretofore, 1968]
Copyright Credit: Russell Atkins, "Night and the Distant Church" from World’d Too Much: The Selected Poetry of Russell Atkins, edited by Kevin Prufer and Robert E. McDonough. Copyright © 2019 by Russell Atkins. Reprinted by permission of Cleveland State University Poetry Center.
Source: World’d Too Much: The Selected Poetry of Russell Atkins, edited by Kevin Prufer and Robert E. McDonough (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2019)