Iglesia 1953
no one sweeping the stairs
no one comes and goes
no services posted
a soundless congregation
(curious thoughts of a young child)
on this German-Irish-Italian block,
Dutchtown’s misplaced immigrant
foreign, mysterious,
marks time in silence––
alongside Lou’s butcher shop,
lacking sacramental staging,
this small chapel––
more a landscape where people pass by,
hear little
see no one
curious
Antoni Ooto is a poet and flash fiction writer. He has been a frequent contributor to Palettes and Quills and An Upstate of Mind. He lives and works in upstate New York with his wife, writer/storyteller Judy DeCroce.
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