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Easter Sunday.(poem)(Web Chapbook Issue: www.webdelsol.com/tlr/)
From:
The Literary Review
| Date:
March 22, 1998| Author:
Smelcer, John E.
| COPYRIGHT 1998 Fairleigh Dickinson University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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1927. It is Easter Sunday.
A young Indian girl sits
impatient on a narrow spruce pew
inside a white-frame
church. In faded black cassock
the gaunt priest's sermon echoes
off gilded ikons of Mary and Jesus
in words distant and
unfamiliar. That night when the child
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