possum christ
we
assemble
in the garden
sunday
at sunrise
waiting for the
cardinal to
sing
squirrel servers
scuttle through
the gate
rabbit deacon
dove subdeacon
orange-vested
robins
chanting
in trees
possum christ
plays dead
under a
bevined
bench
the cardinal
flits for the
blueberry bush
the deacon for
the dandelions
the servers
scuttle
up the
black
walnut
Maria Mazzenga is a poet from Arlington, Virginia who’s been writing poetry for 30 years; she was first published as a teenager in The Catskill Review, and later in Poet Magazine and Takoma Voice. She has done readings in Maryland and Washington, D.C. She is currently an editor on a new online poetry publication Jump, where she has also published a few of her pieces.
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