Palm Branches After

by The Devotional Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

After the service, palm branches lie beneath the pews, green commas from a sentence we have not finished. A child carries one home. An usher sweeps the rest. Faith is partly what happens when the procession ends: who bends to gather, who keeps walking, what welcome becomes work.
48 words · 11 lines · Free Verse
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