Chicago Morning
I write poems to be clear how
leaf fall could call down the sky.
He is confused with a lowly
gardener and disappeared.
Fill the skies. Your helicopters
cannot snuff all the candles.
prayers
at his street memorial
the votive
shaking inside
After making his rounds as a United Methodist clergyperson in Wisconsin for over thirty years, Dan Schwerin is now serving as the bishop assigned to the Northern Illinois-Wisconsin Area of The United Methodist Church.
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